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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  eat as many cups of ice cream as you can handle. Smart people stack the ... To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts ... bridges and become the first Asian pop star to succeed in America. A few paragraphs later, the author turns to none other than MIT Comparative Media

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  ) into their consumption, but the loud mouth-crunching tends to interrupt the rest of the committee's ability to read without annoyance ... knew that by reading the title of this blog. But you also need some

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice ... Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for ... world"), most within walking distance of MIT. Today is the second day of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest ... of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The ... supplement to the real world, an additional decoration. It is the heart of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  in your first year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer to MIT is during your second term of study. Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (i
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U.S. GPA system. Simply leave spaces blank if the information is not ... point average) or even whether your school calculates them. With our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  brain be put to better use than a repository of the Ruff Ryders Anthem ... childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  step in the project was to establish a set of constraints such that a ... DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of ... creator of an appropriate dispostion--the article was indeed about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (i.e., five terms) of college may not be eligible because of our residency requirements. If you have been enrolled in
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at Truly Jorg's Patisserie in Kenmore Square, which had some of the coolest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  [annotation note="Sharp calculated that the initial wave of molasses could ... street to [annotation note="* The Bunker Hill Monument"]The battle of ... and found a bench to sit on. The number of spelling errors significantly

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  values calculated here were based off of the fact that there were 95 ... . That’s not to say that I had no work. Each of the three videos for my ... , so I had plenty of time to evaluate my course load for the semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  ’ll calculate the ratio of the number of scribbled cross-outs to the number of ... . Smart mathematicians use pencils. The rest of the trip went smoothly ... : the first week of orientation is (almost) dedicated to REX, or Residence

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  the results of any external examinations, such as the International ... The Secondary School Report Form is designed for U.S. school systems ... schools do not calculate GPA, class rank, and other statistics, so your
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... myself back in the auditorium listening to the final round of presentations ... with the sisters of Alpha Chi Omega (abbreviated as “AXO”) from 8 to 9 pm

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  simultaneously was not good enough for me to take 8.012, the advanced version of ... physics. I like to think that, anyway. The authors of this textbook make ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  work to maybe get to where he is one day, and at the end of the day, no ... in the work to be smart? Frankly, it's the latter. But my complex and ... of a school is cuts deep and runs strong. I want to be smart. I want to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020