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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more ... ," as we call it, is a Big Deal. Each class selects a ring committee which ... attire was "encouraged," so I sucked it up and put on a dress. I left

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  , MIT Natya put on a show called Laasya, which means 'dance' in Sanskrit ... dance as I did. As the host school, we didn't actually compete in the ... seriously feels as though I spent more of last week in dance practice than I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  down quite yet). What I do feel like doing, though, is sharing few of the ... This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only ... be the year when things 'get real', at least as a Mech-e, and I found

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So ... applications (thanks!) and I have a file with all of your questions which I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... . And what I’ve got is this pretty amazing flowchart my cross-country co ... before going out to dinner. Running is a great sport, but no one ever chose

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  complete a final written project. No prior knowledge of "Sex and the City" is ... on social theory with field-work in which students illustrate a spatial ... (It's from "Chicago," people) I was browsing through the MIT Course

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  .370: Robocraft Now the one I'm most familiar with is Robocraft since my roommate ... strategy (hopefully those extra hours will pay off). So I entered 26-100 after exiting lab and found the lecture hall in a standing room only

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  , although I may be a little gullible, their sign is so well written that I ... that the pipes (a "symbol of the Anthropocene") are drawing our attention ... . This is even more ironic if you know that Building 54 is named the Green

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  $2000) in the hackathon, beat out only by a hack that lets users draw on a ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  ? I swear that’s the last time I’ll ask, mostly because very soon CPW ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life ... .” * [* Actual regret may vary] I’m really posting to remind you that we’ll be

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  . :) I haven't done a Q&A in a while. I'm sure that the new admittees ... Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  As a person who hails from a land devoid of seasons, I consider it my utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my way. Amongst other things, I’ve been taking pictures of the changing

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  I'm in Phoenix for the International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the ... 's Shawn Estes having a nice pitchers duel in the early innings and a come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... a decision, or you haven't even applied, I'd prefer if you stuck to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  , only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse ... in just ten years. 1 in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest proportion of international students in a U

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... , granola bars and a box of organic alfalfa sprouts that appeared in no ... selection of some deeply profound queries that I implored: aliens in disguise

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  , that's nine hacks. The tenth, I suppose, is the meta-hack itself - the ... A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two ... the wall. You can't really see anything in that picture. But what my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  -qualified applicants is a daunting task. I'm excited about the choices we've made, while ... Education. RSI, which is free (except for the application fee), actually has a ... 're planning a 4-day weekend for the Class of 2010 that will hopefully help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  . One way to bypass this limitation is to launch a telescope in multiple ... Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly ... - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to ... It is that time of year again! The semester is starting, campus is ... fizzy green liquids, owner of a popular LinkedIn meme account, and wizard

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022