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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  will provide them with a well-rounded education. Will they graduate from MIT knowing about math and science and nothing else? Would attending a ... century English literature exclusively, then the Institvte is probably not a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  and I got to talk to some people who I haven't seen for more than a ... cream and jam, and drinking tea, of course. For those of you who don't ... trips to fun places. While this sounds like a lot of fun and something

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  different situations, we see that a leader doesn’t fit a mold. That’s why ... , especially in a world where leadership, interpersonal, and management skills ... interdisciplinary problem-solving, MIT is uniquely equipped, and obliged, to make a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  didn’t have a particularly strong presence in the selection of works, but ... Nguyen’s 67-minute length film. I don’t really have a benchmark to base my ... Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  #Commencement #MITAlumni A post shared by MIT Admissions (@mitadmissions) on Jun 8 ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the ... MIT education confers. An excerpt: i don't sleep with my grad rat on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students ... was a rich sense of community that developed out of this house and it

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  the thing which casts a shadow. It's the contours of where the light isn't ... data as being predictive or revealing: What's happening here is a ... process. When we say that the admit rate for students with a 750-800 was 15

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our ... that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow me to explain. In a selective, competitive, holistic, merit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will once again be considered ... submitted. (A little historical data: over the past seven years, the average

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... well; I had just come back from FLP (Freshman Leadership Program), a Freshman Pre-Orientation Program, and was so excited to explore MIT for a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will once again be considered ... submitted. (A little historical data: over the past six years, the average

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  , my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO), had a chocolate fondue party, where ... , it went off without a hitch, with about fifty staff members and 400 ... a row house on Commonwealth Avenue (two minutes from Fenway Park.) The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  patients. But being in a hospital "doesn't necessarily give you the ... There was a nice article in yesterday's Boston Globe about the ... origins of schizophrenia and autism. They talk a little bit about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me ... some pictures from this evening: I'm ready for the snow...

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  if rupi kaur went to mit milk and funny

  

  i will start this assignment early —due at 11:59 p.m ... _hidden]every time i get an email from you my heart skips a beat how i wish you would

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  assignment is worth 20% of your grade Panic You are a freshman this is

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  Are We Waiting For": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18EE36Utb0 This ... Nikita Khlystov Lili Sun Zach Tomlinson I also want to give a special

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... be over and I'll be gloriously ecstatic, I'm going to have to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunes of the All-Night Tool Just a little night music from me.

  

  Finishing up those last problem sets you've been working on all weekend can be lonely. Fortunately, music can help. Which is why I'm taking ... a few of the top hits on my playlist right now. Some of these are old

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math ... Mathematics (HCSSiM)Honors Summer Math Camp (HSMC)Program in Mathematics for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006