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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said, "When we heard the best minds were on the case, we expected MIT, not the ... Manufacturing guru), is among those selected for the job. You can read more at

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  Tonight's episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show ... out (MythBusters is an awesome show!). This isn't the first time MIT ... ," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  that can help. Approximately 44% of graduates go directly to employment, and 49% of the Class of 2024 went directly to grad school. The average starting salary for an MIT undergraduate—regardless of major—is $126
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... , 19,020 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2020. As of today ... . These 1,485 students are truly exceptional. The admitted Class of 2020

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  issue of the MIT International Review at http ... following question: "What is the most important challenge facing our world ... , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  here (in green) is contained in the fibers of its projections onto the x ... $ is bounded by the number of points in the projection onto the $x ... bound is, all we need is one example of a set $A$ where the inequality is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  correct answer later. The title of the puzzle is "Friends in Noble England ... Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  director of MIT-Spain is in Madrid, and all of the interns are meeting for ... Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain, I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  've changed the homepage video. Gone is MIT: The Motion Picture, retired (appropriately) to the MIT Movies Emeritus page. In its place, you can find "What ... movie was produced by MIT students during the Freshman Arts Program which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory ... hear, this class was just created this year, and this is the first

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay's Boston concert. The Bank of America Pavillion is right off the Silver ... Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing this out) Freshman year, one of my classes was actually taught by former ... To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  decide who truly is the greatest lover of pancakes. Last Wednesday, a group ... campus, since that's one of the hardest things to do when the semester is ... of the dorm occasionally. So without further ado, here are some other

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  all the code myself, most of the heavy lifting is done by tools like ... is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  lists, but one of them ranked the top 20 metropolitan areas in the United States in order of the percentage of workers in STEM (Science, Technology ... 's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  our inbox, these delays have been the source of considerable anxiety for ... contingencies, regardless of when they apply. However, it is perhaps especially ... other reason). We use the same processes and standards of review during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  of several language classes is available in condensed form: three hours a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive ... During our Independent Activities Period (IAP), essentially most of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  same again but i think sharing is one of the best ways to get through ... oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then ... Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor ... . I decided to share the wealth with my friends over the course of the

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into. I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008