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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... , and, worst of all, undermining each other in the quest to gain ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to mention hundreds more students who weren't admitted to MIT or chose to ... As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Status Deadline to schedule interview for EA applicants extended.

  

  yesterday due to a hardware issue - we apologize for any inconvenience. The tech gurus have been working around the clock to fix it, but they're not sure when it will be back online. As MyMIT is the only place to view

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  , too? Guy: Really? Sam: Yeah, you just have to go back to the admissions ... that this entire enterprise is nothing more than a spinoff of the ... upon being recognized that I forgot to get to your name. Sorry about that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  that maps to this point under the projection, called the fibers of this ... going to present in higher dimensions). I.e., the number of points in $A ... example of a set with roughly (up to some constant) $N$ points, whose

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... differ between competitions from 4 to 6). Of the 23 participants, 13 were ... of a possible 40 points to win a silver medal at the 1974 International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  's about here. Writing a novel, kind of It's sci fi! I've always wanted to ... Maine with my parents later this July Listening to a lot of music, as ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... . That doesn't mean we didn't take some time to have fun. I made a point of ... I am happy to report several things: 1) I no longer have swine flu 2

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  ; * To foster new modes of inter-institutional collaboration; and * To ... I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it ... along, or even get to sit inside of the lecture hall. There was also an ... alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the ... to live within walking distance of MIT, but then I got old and traded ... from Kendall/MIT to Porter). Getting off campus and out of the city for

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  point, Yo-Yo decided to really lean into the "haha I am so old" part of ... , Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester ... excited to hear this. Two years ago, Fred had also promised a “special

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  of December, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts with a friend. It was ... of starting to appreciate art museums, which, looking back, I am so ... , to the strangers I made dinner with after a final, on a floor of East

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  the top of the hill to look at Boston from. The view was absolutely incredible. Then, we hiked around the side of the hill and descended to the ... brought us straight to a beach where the majority of other visitors to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn ... to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go ... terrified of starting this class. Turns out, this is shaping up to be my ... and adorable! Don’t be too creeped out if I try to hug you at the end of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  applications we can during regular action, regardless of when the application was ... number of deferred students later admitted has been about 300 -- but who ... any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  applications we can during regular action, regardless of when the application was ... number of deferred students later admitted has been a bit under 300 -- but ... any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  to one of these programs, don't procrastinate! The MIT programs are ... 's Technology Program (WTP) Programs open to out-of-state; largely regional ... of the large block of free time to do something meaningful for yourself.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008