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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can ... Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  Sometimes you should stop to identify all of the different pictures ... lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and casually glance at the first letters. You know, just in the spirit of things. : )

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome, online. Click To Play   Thanks to MIT TechTV for posting the clip!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of ... a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to answer all of the questions you've left in the comments.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Bomb Wing with a fleet of B-1B bombers as well as the 317th Airlift group comprised of C-130s. Thirteen other cadets on the visit and I were split up ... and dirty in some jets and really get to know the enlisted side of the

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Miscellaneous Admissions Office updates.

  

  the fall semester. More info and data on that when I know more.If you haven't gotten the NBM, please email the Orientation Office at orientation ... 're waiting for a reply. Ditto on the comments/Questions Omnibus. It's still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  she works - the roof of the Green Building!  The Green Building is the ... , Jupiter and more! The view from the Green Building, the home of MIT's Earth ... some fun with them on the roof! Adam S. '14 wanted a photo of him in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I ... and sleep, but gained the priceless skill of taking naps anytime (#1, 4

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... %. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On my defeated march back to my dorm room, I run into a good friend of ... replied to any of her texts in the past 12 hours or so. In terms of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... was built for a cruising airspeed of about 70 mph, but it still took the ... of 7 laps in 4 minutes (tying with the best score), and we were only a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook ... of the greatest weekends of my life, and I am so thankful for having

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  .” – WGBH website Since one of the hosts of the show, Nate Ball, is an MIT ... the entire cast was also in attendance. (Oh, and one of the high school ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  ? This: (video credit: Tony Eng) The official description of Leader ... solving and interpersonal communication. Over the course of the program ... faculty & staff cluster leaders and student veterans of the program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  on and off public transit with ease. This felt like the kind of stuff ... closest thing I had to an older brother. As I exited the elevator of my ... , friends, parents, pets, the like. About 50% of our graduating program cohort

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a ... Calendar just seems to be the typical calendar a lot of people use so it ... making the days flow into each other and I lost a lot of my own sense of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... on the right side of the road after a few blocks. There are also quite ... of the dorms don't have air conditioning kind of freaks me out. are the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ago we did our traditional decorating of the tree. Just 2.8 miles from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  This afternoon, we began early action selection for the Class of 2010. As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants ... that this will be a very tough year of MIT admissions. The quality of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005