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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT ... port of call - namely, the offices or dorm rooms of anyone willing to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  Yes, I'm in the American Southwest... Yesterday, I had ice cream with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... get to browse some of the 1100+ projects, followed by the big lunch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity ... out from the beginning. Personally, I've gotten a lot out of my ... actually do a lot for the community, provide a lot of development

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we ... interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we ... interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... Fellowship and join "the next generation of tech visionaries." Perhaps this ... out of slumber during the two-hour ride from Ahmedabad's airport to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... her musical days were over. Courtesy of the HASS-D requirement, she ... % of the student body is enrolled in a music class*. We have a Pulitzer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  , it's just not mental or technical. It's physical labor of the purest ... caulking the exterior of our house, mowing fields, and generally being tired ... together a quick demo of a rough cut. The satelite overlay isn't there yet

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... ) tried to strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA ... condition (e.g. "In 2000, an estimated 73% of the population lived below the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of ... tomorrow. (The Weather Channel shows clear skies for the next ten days

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas ... attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the ... responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts ... method which will minimize the formation of these Maillard reaction

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  mindset you have. It was something really general, along the lines of "what ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a ... a reminder to ask bigger questions--Am I making the most of my time

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  . How can you identify the jar of empty mollusk shells by performing only ... кошка + кошка собака   There are two solutions. The meaning of ... a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  students this year for the Class of 2016. I know many of you have been ... As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the ... . Each year, we always plan on admitting students from the waitlist

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged firmly in the back of my throat -- out, I finally came up with a simple

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... third of the way through, but it's the first book in a while that I ... plots of books that strongly, as long as the characters are interesting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT ... with their [annotation note="the emergency grading policy of Pass ... ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  is, even as I write, busily processing all of the application pieces ... Please remember that January 1 is the postmark deadline for students ... the Post Office postmark and mail your materials on or before January 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005