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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  . Regardless of what it looks like, this is a tribute to our institute, not a poorly-spelled tribute to Matt McGann. It's Eiffel's fault, not ours ... Handbook for 17 years without any faculty or staff, until the last remaining

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  recitation contest Pie eating contest Free pie for everyone! And don't forget to pick up your UMA pi day T-shirt! All contest winners get pi ... you to the Pie + Ice Cream Study Break! Tuesday, 3.14 @ 7 PM Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party. Here's the description I just submitted to the events crew: You've spent the last 6 months

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... convinced that we'd have to admit at least a few from the waitlist. I was ... had we been able to take a few, because each of you has a ton of heart

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  making a completely awesome aid sheet for 3.091... ...and then you go to ... for it.... "Yes! I got a 66!" Here's what I'm trying to get across ... 's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  parabaloid, a shape well known to mathematicians - or something very close to ... to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a ... A great article about MIT Professor Erik Demaine in today's New York

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT ... life - I've certainly done it before - but a lot of my big rambles have been posted already, and I'm not sure what you guys want to hear about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  Square, Coolidge Corner, Beacon Hill, the North End, just to name a few ... music: I love nearly all kinds of music, but if asked to name a few, I ... right answer to a question on an application. There is only the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to come up with a word to succinctly describe this aspect of my personality. A few weeks ago, I realized that the word I was looking for was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the least, I decided that today, I'm going to take a little road trip to NYC. Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run at a non-right angle to all the rest, that 66 is the 30-60-90 triangle ... else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday ... /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  a particularly shocking corner for me. I used to walk along Memorial Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was ... head of house really shines a light on what made Senior Haus something to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  Chemistry). MIT held a press conference to announce Prof. Diamond's win. Here ... . Diamond, a big Red Sox fan, how winning the Nobel compared to the Red Sox ... D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  : (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for ... enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll ... guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  Institut Néel, a world-famous magnetism research center situated in ... I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see ... lucky folks get to hear them instead!). We get samples from chemists in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... LImelight. (I challenge any other admissions office to a Karaoke competition

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... $60, and even a set of overlaying stickers, to convert a normal keyboard ... 'm hoping that I'll either be able to find one abandoned in a basement when I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  I'm taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or ... ="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For those of you who don't know, this is what a pony looks like: [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  tinkerer/builder type who had a passion for creation. I wore around my MIT ... where I felt I was meant to go, imagining how I’d install a WiFi enabled ... was a setup for heartbreak. What bothered me the most was that I wasn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016