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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  " from a lovely antiques store in Boston So here is my workspace (and my ... shabby, huh? Check out our immediate view The sign in the bottom of ... office's view. Evidence is below In case you're not convinced, check

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  don't have to send in the midyear report? A. No, you must send in the ... I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received lots of calls today, with many references to my blog. Below are the FAQs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  memorization, but rather if you truly understand the metrial. MIT is dedicated to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in groups, and the first year is graded on a pass/no record system. While your
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  ,000 times, and is currently in critical condition in the laboratory ... was locked in a room and forced to calculate pi to the 1083 decimal ... Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my ... I've always said I don't believe in linear time, but this is ridiculous. Remember to set your clocks back! This blog is actually part of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... aspects of MIT you'd like to learn more about, let me know in the comments ... of the blogs have illustrated, school is often exciting, but when the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... night from September 31, 2004 to December 2, 2004. Back in the dark ages

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  : This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work ... stuff is as neat as I do, and want more,you are in luck! As part of the ... Years in the Stacks" blog, which is highlighting one book a day from their

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your application (assuming you were in the applicant pool)? Knowing that each app

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends ... Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  cream through a small hole in a jar into the LN2...) Halloween is this ... events spanning the last week of which I took pictures. To whet your appetite: It was my turn to cook for the Tetazoo Food Coop, and my partner

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... Massachusetts to Malaysia and many places in between. We can't wait to welcome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps ... 't want to go to MIT, despite the nice scholarship thrown in for good ... .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  . There is a Frank Stella room-size installation in Building 7 on the 3rd ... campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when ... you. But mostly, you were confusing July. Senior year is coming up ... you are particularly special.  Because you are the last one that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  Tomorrow is my last final! Hurray! In the meantime, I was just surfing the web (read: procrastinating) when I came across an American Idol ... 29-year-old, in the finals? Back in the day, Simon criticized 21-year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because it's how problems are solved in the real world, by small teams of smart
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  registration drive held in the days leading up to the Massachusetts registration ... expressed interest but couldn’t wait in the long lines to our table. We didn ... even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... it was made from Legos and is referred to as the Space Waffle, and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... have the opportunity to climb the mountain that is MIT. They hail from ... on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open threads for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023