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• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate status. “The courses are cerebral,’’ said Carrie Sampson Moore, director ...  sailing the Charles!
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  you can't tell, the flag is white with a red cross on it. Okay, I ... this at the local supermarket: The signs say Happy St. George's Day ... another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  MIT, I appreciate the most is the diversity. I guess it might be because ... 's edition of TechTalk, a newspaper published by the MIT News Office. Why ... , I embarked on the adventure of producing a documentary about the

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human ... encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... ’t think the idea of abolishing gendered language is really being discussed

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  (his name is Ben.) Ben walked us through the setup, then let us create ... A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we spent about two hours there this evening, then walked home. On the way

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIGHTS. pretty pretty

  

  As you may or may not know by now, this past semester has been a ... celebrations have been covered here and there on the blogs (Convocation, Public ... students, researchers from the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of ... Wednesdays for the next 4 months... (Sorry for the bad photo; I only had my camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I ... math joke. My roommate, a math major, is especially into them...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  Since I start grad school orientation tomorrow, and tomorrow is Registration Day for MIT students (the official start of the new academic year) I ... 've really enjoyed the past fourteen months, and I'm so glad I got the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT ... . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks. If you look close enough, you can see the barge responsible for all the

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  Rodney Brooks. Call me an idealist, but my favorite of the responses is ... My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  FIRST SNOW!!! OH MY GOD IT SNOWED

  

  ="aligncenter" width="960"] photo from Jeffery L. ’23, he is the best roommate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vlogging about Course 3 and Applying to MIT A video in which I talk to myself and I am an awkward MIT student…

  

  I did the vlog thing!   I didn't take a video of a cat, but here is a picture of Rory:

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted in EA!

  

  Congratulations on your acceptance to the class of 2017!   This is what you look like right now -     Go ahead and introduce yourselves. :-)

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many music choices! That is all. Time to study for my test.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow Day? No Way! I'm totally counting down the days until the spring equinox.

  

  As you may have seen from Shannon's blog, everyone at MIT woke up to a rather snowy view outside. Here's what my fraternity looked like: Fortunately for me, my first class on Mondays is at noon. So the roads looked

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Best. Hack. Ever. The title says it all.

  

  www.mitcannon.com Hats off, hacking community. Hats off. For the record, this is absolutely my favorite hack of all time... Amazing. -B P.S. I dedicate this to you. ;-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! The bloggers' holiday pic.

  

  Just a quick note to say happy holidays from all of us to all of you. We hope your vacations are fun and safe, and that your 2006 is super. :-) P.S. All questions to date have been answered in the previous entry...

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt in progress

  

  The Hunt is on! I'll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it's over...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How many Nobel Prize Laureates are affiliated with MIT?

  MIT is affiliated with 104 Nobel Prize Laureates. You could be taking a class with one of the 12 current Nobel Laureate faculty members at MIT very soon!