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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  ] One of the fun parts of the Internet Archive is the Wayback Machine ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  is usually a language requirement to the MISTI programs and the two ... can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I ... attempt to grasp harder leads to doubts of whether the memory had been real

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  . MIT is having an open house of its own this weekend, which will be the ... thousands of prefrosh and their families, the "Under the Dome" Open House is ... Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle ... I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... carry me. But sometimes, the Tech Shuttle is so far from the nearest stop

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  know after five years of living here is more on every level than the one ... could be proud of. I'm not all the way there yet (who is?) and I don ... I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... do our own correlation studies," said Marilee Jones, the dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  like this: at the bottom of every page? One thing we would do is not ... publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends ... know, the one that is now on every site across the Internet. It's no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look ... MIT campus sits on the side of the Charles River, and the sororities and ... the MIT Saferide shuttle. This is the entrance to the AXO house: It was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same ... folder is complete -- all of the documents have arrive, been entered, and ... come out until all of the applications have been read. The lesson here is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So ... , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  he doesn't like the arts - but the truth of the matter is that MIT students have quite a bit of respect for drama, music, poetry, and all the ... really, one of the best parts about college theater is watching your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  think is super cool -- and got my fourth and final burger of the long CPW ... against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  the Ivies is as fierce as ever, but kids who look beyond the famous schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http ... importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  is contributing towards the making of global citizens. 'Global ... MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my ... is once you actually meet them … or talk to them outside of the ... Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Gramophone Hall of Fame, has won a gazillion awards, is in the Royal Swedish ... , he asked one of the kid's in the front row: "it's too warm in here! is ... , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  . The brony fanbase is arguably one of the most accepting social groups in ... by the entire world if I did so. Arguably, this is less of a costume ... You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  beauty of this place is reason enough to be here – but the actual purpose of my visit to Anaikatti is to work at one of the tribal hospitals in ... , regardless of how many questions I ask. Yesterday, I was given the chance to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to ... Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish ... -studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010