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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  " new level of federal funding for clean energy research. The event came ... - MIT News Office Energy has been a central, vibrant part of MIT ... obligation, is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  for you. The rainbow is the symbol of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual ... establishment of the Rainbow Lounge the MIT students, staff, faculty and guests ... allies - achieve a better sense of community with its cross

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... , there is a wide variety of places around campus where you can get your hands on some power tools- of the large variety. One of the principle

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should ... sufficiently show who you are. I hope this is helpful and answers lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... choose the type of grades you want to send us. Numerical or letter grades
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... Computing Group. The leader of our group is Zoya Bylinskii, a PhD student, and our group consists of three MEng students, a Master’s student from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... current crop of graduating seniors but is also engaged with the the next group of rising seniors (and other underclass students) who are anxious to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  of MIT's partnership with/acceptance of money from Shell and other companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not ... th. There's a very, very fancy portrait of David Koch in the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt. I rarely ever see any highschoolers at any of these events. That all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  : that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  working on over the past week. Some of these science experiments include a ... . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... . But it is all in the name of science. All events taking place over the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do ... : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack Something, following the proper etiquette (Hacker's Code of Ethics) which is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin ... , which had a population of 544 in the 2010 census. This is about the size of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of ... a perhaps disturbing amount of time talking about what the women and ... by sleep deprivation. So we decided to take the ambiguity out of it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  In a year of record early action applications, 590 students have been admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants ... between early and regular action admissions, meant that only 10.4% of

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of it. I finished half of my 2.671 homework, half of 2.008, and half of 2.004. Left is 7.012 studying, the second halves to all of those other things

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  get started with this entry, let me dust the cobwebs out of your head ... , at the very beginning of the semester. Since then, all the sophomores ... night on May 8th. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say that was a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year, largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009