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Blog / MIT History & Culture
Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer
is the universe’s way of telling me that I should stop trying and just ... This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done -
Blog / Events
Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"
So I can't take an ounce of credit for this artistic endeavor, but I will applaud it's shear awesomeness. So this weekend my friends Diana ... hang from Baker to celebrate the Red Sox. We wanted news coverage, and -
Blog / Life after MIT
A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…
Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to -
Blog / Athletics
Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)
biplane took a payload of pumpkins up over the fake town at the back of the ... have spent here, MIT has a lot of completely amazing people. One of these ... have the dangerous dual combination of both being full of awesome project -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations
platform. Prof. Miyagawa also asked the prominent University of Tokyo ... 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 -
Blog / Academics & Research
The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!
leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... all the schools and majors and degrees if you are curious.) As you ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school -
Blog / About Decisions
Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.
- the King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, fresh from a master's degree ... * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I like fireworks. (Although a couple years ago I had a friend that kind of -
Blog / Advice
Exploring Classes a guide
a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose ... " /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can ... at MIT, and it lets you plan out your classes over a longer period of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Why It Pays…
meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math- or science-related major might just be worth it -- in terms of job outlook and high starting pay, that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top -
Blog / Admissions
Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…
MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the -
Blog / Admissions
Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas
We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... complete overhaul, probably exceeding in terms of potential transformation -
Blog / Advice
SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter
known as CPW) was a whirlwind of constant adventure. What I wouldn’t have ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here’s some of what I got up to! Name [latex]2^n[/latex] Women: Dorm -
Blog / MIT Life
Room 251 a room tour!
, and I hang a lot of stuff on my bedpost. There's also a lot of artwork ... spaces to hook hangers, so I hang a lot of clothes below my bed this way as ... IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally -
Blog / Challenges
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..
[To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone ... again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like -
Blog / About Decisions
I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET
corner of the universe. I guess the real magic was the friends we made ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... ) "On the 14th of March, MMXXV, The High Elders foretold a cursed -
Blog / Admissions
The Ides of March
University, who nevertheless said he had yet to read a profile of a young ... reception, I stood as a representative of the first university to get ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…
Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘ ... a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With -
Blog / Life after MIT
What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…
My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends ... idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t believe everything that you read
Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted