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• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus, the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  freshmen from living in senior house; and second, to institute a "turnaround team" dedicated to helping senior house "become a healthier community ... the admissions blogs have always been a platform for students to speak

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... ,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  a closer look at that sail! Looks to me like a sail with a C on it...a C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don ... This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Getting My MIT Decision on Pi Day Pie a comic

  

  this comic was inspired by the pie invention scenes in Waitress the Musical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  conventional solar concentrators. Professor Baldo is a principal investigator in ... in, 2002, he has worked on fundamental improvements to the efficiency ... turbine pumps water out of a storage volume anchored to the seabed. ORES

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day). Here's when you know it's time to go to bed. Roommate Jon: "Did you get ... Mathematica could do it." Jon: "I know, the same thing happened to me. I think I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would love to hear your comments about ZigZag, so please don't be shy, speak up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  degrees in Design and Architecture, and even a minor in Art, Culture and ... at MIT, you don't have to major or minor in the arts to be fully ... More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Final Push Who needs sleep?

  

  the material. I've just woken up from a nap, ran to the store, and am now hidden away to study all night. It's a straight push through till ... This is it, MIT is in the middle of finals week and the final grind

  • by Snively '11
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A: Exhibit A Jon is the one closest to you, sitting at his computer after ... Exhibit B. Exhibit B Then BAM!!!, like a kick to the face delivered by

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  again, I would in a heartbeat. [Photo credit to Sherry '15!] 2.00b ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper ... -like models... so we started designing our blasters in Solidworks, a computer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Saves The Pact God bless Stu's hairy face.

  

  hero. We'll give him a few days to grow and then we'll get some pics up here. MAD props to Stu for saving the pact. ... agony of yesterday's events, I walked into our weekly staff meeting to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  to take a pirate-themed boating/camping trip to Bumpkin Island in the ... gallons of water. With that in place, we had some time left over to do a ... an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... .  What changed? Me. I changed. Who was once a headstrong, ready-to ... think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  interest in Shakespeare. Dakin said Rindone may seek to spend a college ... during high school but to not look too far away from Revere for a college ... fall. He will major in mathematics. "He is a quietly brilliant kid who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match ... many countries around the world come to MIT. Here's the challenge: In ... only three countries in the World Cup had zero applications submitted to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006