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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I have the video for you. Our goal was to make an accessible, virtual tour

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to ... commenters and my occasional check-in to bemoan your exponential progress or ... typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  different dramatic aesthetics - crucial factors in a composer's approach to ... ...well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP ... . During January, a lot of people do externships, some go to Zambia, some

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  my fellow freshmen and I when we arrived on campus in August, only to ... , as some of you will have already guessed, in reference to the Large ... yesterday titled, "How to Win a Nobel Prize" - hands down, it was my favorite

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  In 2011, MIT Mechanical Engineering students went through MISTI to ... projects to improve life in impoverished communities at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico (to name a select few). In fact, a total of 80 Mech

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently rated among the best in the world. They include: Biology, Brain and ... % of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I ... "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... brainstorming in August to constant drafting throughout September to numerous

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  lucky folks get to hear them instead!). We get samples from chemists in ... I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see ... , I get to explore the city with friends, go to the farmers market, hike

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  or very excited about integrals to fit in, do well, or have fun at MIT. We have all sorts of hobbies. In fact, you can get through MIT solving ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... also remembered that if a snake chases you, you're supposed to run in a ... 't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  waffle, though. In other news, 12 days until I get to see the real Ryan ... : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was babysitting!") 2. You get to play with light-sabers and Nerf guns and not even

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... have received something that she's made in the mail. Holly is a Senior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January? How about combining a study-abroad experience with an internship in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  , etc. in our mouth. There are other ways to categorize. How can we tell ... ] barn - voiced [m] mango - nasal* [w] wipe - approximant* * we'll get to ... allows air to flow through the nose in order to produce the sound. If you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  up getting really excited. "How excited, Sam?" Really excited ... 're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... 'm not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  write a follow up in one or two days about how I used Fireflies to help ... to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and proofread what Sam had sent me. The last task on my list was to add in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  will be sure to get the interview report. Midyear Report: I know that ... you to work on your MIT application in the meantime. Working on the MIT ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  It's raining in Boston today, but MIT students are smiling anyway ... quesadillas. It today opened its fourth restaurant in Boston, in the MIT Student ... to campus, and that's exactly what happened. Last night, before the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  to step up and become the floor's new Apple Bake Chair (TM). No other ... investment anyway It's truly glorious to see the floor in the hours ... The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005