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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  important that MIT’s administration understand the needs and desires of ... Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... with all of my family members and spend time with them, as this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  combination of intuition and rigor–I believe the former is more important to me ... I asked a bunch of people, professors, current and former students ... topology, which is the study of flexible shapes like knots or rubber surfaces

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  telling you about my bitterness? Because it's an important part of my life. No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who are imagining what life might be like here, here is some important

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  it? We bumped into five of its organizers sitting around a table, just ... I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of ... surface Cause underneath I could tell No, I couldn't, I couldn't tell One of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  personally think the second bullet point is the more important of the two, but ... 've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were out of your houses (MIT pre-frosh are busy people, apparently). So if I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  pack studying into their nights like dried nuts and figs into a slab of ... impressively in-tune serenading. Four floors of residents rushed into the well of ... bunch of chocolate and crushed candy canes into a bowl with your standard

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  go into CAPS LOCK MODE for some reason, but it's all out of my system ... in the fall (into a slightly smaller room, no less), that'll kind of ... extensive collection of movies. I've decided to replace Veronica Mars with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman ... propel myself towards my next event, i push away the cloud of uncertainty

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now ... important. straight bottom of the foot is not good. you can see in the next ... . part of this was because i was not walking in the best way, for several

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  , they are not the only—or even the most important—factor when we review an ... (including future sittings) of the SAT, ACT, and English proficiency exams on
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Cinnamon rolls I made with Elisabeth '22 shortly after I moved into WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They ... ="505"] Fancy restaurant[/caption] Squeezing some badminton time into

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Wedding of All Time I walked Tim the beaver down the aisle

  

  audience was shedding tears of joy and cheering as Bernoulli pulled Tim into ... of advertising the event in the meantime. I got into my fanciest suit ... no the dog 10:57 Exchange of rings 11:35 Petey declares them beaver

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  speed of light, people falling into black holes, and people stretching out into strands of spaghetti. Our professor obviously had a good time ... indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  cool group of people, known as Class Council, were very deep into ... of walking into the laundry room and finding everything occupied, and I ... were choppy, disjointed, or I simply did not like them. Of course, when a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  coming out of college, I went into coding because it made money.” “But you ... On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  . All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor ... series of dings whenever they open, but, like the distinct colors of their ... as can be, and as the farthest elevator from the entrance of Simmons

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in these regions with much more immediately important things to worry about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018