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• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  families only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice ... arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front ... and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam ... all-nighters come only once in a while though – or they’ll cease to be ... hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  full-time job for next year. Ahhhhh the stress!!!!!! To end this post in ... to be a real person. Like a real person who pays bills. But then I paid ... Do you want to see a picture of my cat? Of course you do! SHE'S SO

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  , students work in large teams of approximately 15 to 19 individuals to design ... 'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... put into them (almost). I hear it gets even better as you go along

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the ... ? by Ana V. '15 May 2015 A Hard MIT Class by Vincent A. '17 How to ... want you to know by Allan K. '17 The 'How to College' Masterpost by

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we ... in the other country. It's interesting to see the different sorts of things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... to the future.         Like many ... history is to realize that futures are products of their pasts. And one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the ... While we can't recommend specific classes, you may want to compare the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  activities on our What to do in high school page. ... We're often asked to recommend specific classes for high school students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand ... when my family went to Ghana back in 2017. So visiting MIT last April for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese ... . As of right now I have two big posts I want to make, “being black in china” and “my globalization experience in China.” However, I do want to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  everyone else's blogs. I would be happy to get feedback from my readers on ... "vacuum" nature of MIT that he alluded to in his entry. Interestingly, I ... ones I posted. Also, I got hosed. Junior year turned out to be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  Science, and Applied Biological Sciences", existed in the MIT Course ... graduate student lost all contact with the department. Starting in the Fall ... . This is all chronicled in my favorite Tech article of all time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of "higher education" to be truly educated, to approach issues of rampant ... series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which allowed us to take this impromptu little trip to the North End's motherland ... post like this, I get anxious about whether or not there will be enough

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  Insitute, "in addition to other objects set forth, shall provide for instruction in military tactics." According to government records, the MIT Army ... ’s pivotal role in developing radar during World War II, to today’s pioneering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  attend MIT and decide to wear the ring in the ad? Is this deep-level nerd-in ... Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  a while since I put any pictures in this blog - I want it to be ... go, this pic has lots of people in it. From left to right, we have Milo ... according to him this failed), watches them in the background. And now

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005