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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  's what matters the most. And in the end, I just want to say thanks to the ... remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... week, Ben came back to MIT to say one final goodbye to everyone in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  39 tabs open in Chrome (which is apparently the threshold at which the ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word ... uninterestingly benign. No face-sized spiders in sight. Most of the staircases in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  amateur astronomer in Colorado, appears to have one of the most accurate ... written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight ... Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  credit to Mitra Many of you have seen that the MyMIT portal is down. No ... everything in the allotted spaces in the application. To answer your question ... : Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I have to admit, the Pittsburgh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before ... ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior ... of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real ... been to 10 MIT weddings in the last 5 years from various college friends

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  ; to the contrary, it is filled to the brim with creativity, as Chris ... awesomeness, in fact, that I decided to experience it the next year as an ... that to begin with. The experience and community last much longer than

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... was, glaring me in the face, the luminescent fact that MIT wants you to ... 's not whether you get in or not that truly matters; the important thing is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  'll try to blog in Spain! :) ps. This has got to be the most interesting ... taking the time to enjoy your last semester in high school. I don't know ... the time in the last months of your high school life to appreciate the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  and engineers, all dedicated to bringing the most advanced science and ... -institutional hubs it is establishing to rapidly advance the application of ... research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  working together to solve the most critical problems in biomedicine. "> ... metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... my wedding dress. This might be because I spent the whole winter in

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... TOEFL mid 50% score range? We only know that the minimum is 570, 600 to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  recruit you to (and inform you about) their majors. Later, in the Spring ... their schedule to take a couple introductory/exploratory classes in the ... exploration at MIT and if MIT has its way to help people find interests and in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  playing with it before seeing the answer, do so; the solution is in the ... my degree in Management Science), I can say that the department is ... the William Lowell Putnam Competition, perhaps the most prestigious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... , I took 5.111, which is (re)Introduction to Chemistry. The semester ... of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  - which you can see in the photo above. (My house is the third brownstone to ... of the Green Building - which is, incidentally, the tallest building in ... Building (as with most buildings at MIT) is prohibited. But the Green

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... toward your GPA at MIT. Therefore, your goal, in general, is to get more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005