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• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter ... supported the education of physics at MIT in a myriad of ways. From developing the TEAL structure of the 8.01 (Classical Mechanics) and 8

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading ... summary of the article- lots of things happened in 2006, but one of the biggest was the general explosion of user-created on-line content. You

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of ... creator of an appropriate dispostion--the article was indeed about ... . After three years of p-sets (which, by the end of last year, I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two ... on the ambulance this semester, one of which I'm currently on, and will ... planning to spend the rest of the day buried in orgo like an ostrich in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  attracted quite a bit of news coverage. CBS Boston video The Boston Channel ... . You can read a decent list of hacks from the last couple of years here ... shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  appetizing. Unless, of course, you believe the twelfth or so verse of "We Are ... Today, of all days, in Jonestown, PA, eight members of my family bore witness to the ultimate showdown between Turkey and Spam. Despite a two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... score became so much the purpose of the exams that when I got into college ... expensive prep classes. The supposed reward of credit was long forgotten

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... , one of our decision servers has decided to self-isolate from the rest of the Internet out of an abundance of caution. If you are getting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  duo was two of the actors from the HBO show Silicon Valley, which a ... /curiosity/etc. These were the posters plastered all around campus: A couple of us ... question), and answered that the Kumail would be a scale of magnitude for the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT ... information about all of our supplements and portfolios on the MIT Admissions ... of time to review the materials that are sent in so please be concise

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  tap into the wealth of creative gems embedded in all the scientific ... inclusion in a glossy magazine published annually at the end of the spring ... a beautiful magazine at the end of the school year. I personally like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  . Anna's research is in the area of Japanese popular culture and is focused ... ,"On the one hand, Japanese hip-hop admittedly takes a lot of its roots from ... the other hand, a lot of artists intentionally take a lot of their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  on the economy or having fun on “The Today Show.” She’s actually one of ... me is the fact that the granddaughter of a Japanese rice farmer can fit ... -dominated. According to The Secrets of Powerful Women, women represent only 17% of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" for the better part of a ... Band composed by Andrew Kazdin. Courtesy of the MIT Museum. MIT ... , which offers us a marvelous vintage tour of the Institute, was produced by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  , which is likely why some of you have been having problems. We'll get to the bottom of that asap, but in the meantime, if you've already ... Hi folks, I just learned from the folks who support my.mit.edu that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game ... ,000 applications. The mean of all guesses was 12,323 (not bad!) and the median was 12 ... Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer ... distance of the 'Tute. Get the Scoop here. Joke answer: Pi a'la mode. ... ice cream on Sunday, I will celebrate this holiday belatedly. The

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite ... in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you ... ) pressure to make the most out of that last summer before college. To explore

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019