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• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  Hockey Aero/Astro 6 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1 Alumni goal: David ... nice photos in his latest post of the final class of 3.091: Introduction ... .091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  that can help. Approximately 44% of graduates go directly to employment, and 49% of the Class of 2024 went directly to grad school. The average starting salary for an MIT undergraduate—regardless of major—is $126
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won
• FAQ / Academics and research

  When was MIT founded?

  Ok, this is probably more info than anyone wants regarding the founding of MIT, but you asked!
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course ... off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... excellent date idea, for those of you who need suggestions), romantic movie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you enjoy and I hope you learn something new. One of the strangest, most opportune gifts I've gotten was a small plastic aquarium, from one of my best

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  editing was far more polished than any of my dreams could ever dream of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... /Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though ... search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality! Check out an incredible piece of graphic art from Ms. Star Simpson of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of ... ; let me know what you think! 11.002J Fundamentals of Public Policy

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of chapters of manga. I learned Japanese so I could watch shows without needing ... part of me that I wouldn't actively think about writing about it, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare, despite running out of energy cards sometime around Thursday afternoon ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but independent ... opposition. Fink remembers being a part of one meeting about Whitehead in which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old ... those of you that haven’t gotten there yet, Chris always has some of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016