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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... the first Festival here. This post is the third of a series of three

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  useful to the soldier. Army members of Team ISN also give guidance on soldier protection and survivability needs, and the relevancy of research ... At the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, MIT, the Army, and
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway ... ..."][/annotation] Like, seriously. Here’s the string of live-texts I put in my sorority ... change my flight to a direct flight that arrives at O'Hare instead of the

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  As the name implies, this is going to be a tier ranking of all thirty ... semester to do so. But this is a great class. Honestly one of the hardest ... was a lot of reading and the discussions were semi-intimidating, I feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  send anything you'd like to us at the address at the bottom of the screen ... does a great job of explaining what sort of folks are best matched to the ... ... does MIT meet 100% of the need of international students?" Yes, MIT is

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  of the Orange County ECs, having a nice picnic dinner. Directly ... the meeting, the ECs had the opportunity to address the audience. At ... introduces the OC ECs. I think all of the Admissions Officers were just a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . Suddenly I was on the other side of the line, separated from my family by a ... then, I’d only seen America through the lens of blockbuster Hollywood ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  habit of giving literally every building on campus the address of “77 ... Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... identifying some of the locations as a sort of summer project. Alan: And, since

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  period of time, is almost certainly insufficient to beat a good team in the ... As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  the body of the announcement. Here’s a screencap of the message: There is a good chance you’ve heard about this already, since a lot of ... the plan more depth. As I mentioned, there is an enormous amount of talk

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  . This is true even though MIT does not use the Common App; submission of ... some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers ... or counselor does not include the MIT cover sheet with their letter. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at ... , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  so graceful fall to the ground, my wallet flew out of pocket closer to ... As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  about the good stuff. Right between the end of classes and finals week ... what finals week did to the 213 suite. First of all, everyone is always eating and never doing dishes, so the sink looks like that. Second of all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  because it is the most recent of styles; this choice does not make ... spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  responsibilities in the Admissions office and my assumption of said responsibilities for this period of 12 months.) By the way, my name is Chris too ... to address me is fine. The only tactic I've seen that I don't find

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... professors are adamant about not making that the purpose of the course. 6 ... hall on campus, 26-100, with a capacity of 566. But it isn’t even the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a ... For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005