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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  -compound catalyst for metathesis--a chemical process wherein two reacting structures swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... autograph my problem set. Now to see if they want a guest spot on my blog

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  : How walkable the city is. And how, once you've been here a while, every ... ), Annie HallFavorite food: A corned beef sandwich from Katz's deli, with the ... ), Portnoy's Complaint (same for Philip Roth), Call it Sleep, Don't Stop the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to Zimbabwe. We can't wait to welcome them to campus to join the 4 ... , high character, and a strong match with MIT's global mission to ... decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  me, we cooked a bunch of food so I wouldn't starve, and we went on an ... I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal with MIT. I was stressed, I was upset, and I made a completely rational

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a ... , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  . To reiterate: don't wait for decisions to arrive via email or snail ... admission, a record number for us and a 27% increase over last year. We ... from these many, many excellent applicants to bring together a class. We

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for ... really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ingredient in healing. I have always had a gut feeling that the whole closure

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA ... , chemical engineer trained at MIT, world-class sailor, and devoted father. A benefactor of the Museum, Koch is also a passionate collector, described by The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Staples building. You can't see it from this picture, but there's a ... .) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to ... , bean stew over rice, green tea ice cream, red bean ice cream, flan, and a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  out into something much larger, including a student arts showcase, live music, and of course the titular runway show. Planning MIT Gala is a ... the scenes to see how a fashion show is made. [caption id

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those [annotation note="Even though he wasn't technically American"]American tall

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  teachers, excellent students, and a beautiful school, I have been smiling for ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of delightful high schoolers, and interviewing with a reporter from the newspaper

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play ... the PE requirement here. If you're a varsity athlete, earning your 8 ... recommend you finish your PE classes by sophomore year, but obviously it's a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In or Out?

  

  Out. I'm pretty disappointed, but hey, it could be worse. So it goes.

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh ... slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates ... schadenfreude. As I exit a building, a discretized gradient of snowfall upon

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so ... not an athletic giant – for one, Briggs Field conspicuously lacks a ... a hockey-related event almost every day; for hours at a time. And it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  list the ones I know with a brief description, and then I'll write a ... service opportunities" and offers IAP and summer fellowships a) Focus ... Fellowships have a competitive advantage in the selection process sample issues

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn trying desperately to convince a young lady to apply to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right ... scenes to change things around a bunch - some portlets will be retired

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005