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• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  Gardens where the circus is actually held. Rose ’14, a Simmons resident ... to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of ... the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  Imagination." You can watch it here:   Professor Woodie Flowers once told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half ... -10pm. There were fruit roll-ups, mud cups, cookies shaped like fingers ... dressed up as a motley crew of 7 characters from Doctor Who... plus a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  around the city. New Orleans is such a conglomerate, a fusion of various ... , an area with a distinctly European feel. Live music is everywhere in ... The Maison while enjoying the soulful beats of a jazz trio. Art is

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  GOLEAN cereal (don't knock it till you've tried it) and poured over it the last bit of my milk, which may have been a problem tomorrow because the milk expires today, but is actually perfect since Spring

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  Kravitz For all you anime fans, a Boston Globe article about the Anime Club ... , I hope you also continue to check out Mitra's blog, which gives a ... most popular teacher at MIT, always wears a tuxedo to his final 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that ... "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today ... . Having an official Course number is a pretty big deal at MIT, so this ... email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  thoroughness and rigor--but it is a window onto a truth that many of us like to forget, which is that even in a diverse community of geniuses, scientists ... ," and, if you've got time, bell hooks on why feminism is for everybody. P

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... is a tad bit lighter: Below is a rundown of my classes this ... reading and writing. 6.033 (Computer System Engineering) is a CI-M, and we

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  laptop cases? this is not that post. this is a post about my desk, which ... = "blogger points to anybody who can guess which flag it is"] knit hat ... = "stress acne is a rip :("] concealer [/annotation] powder foundation

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• 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 ... benefactor of the Museum, Koch is also a passionate collector, described by The ... of the collection is a group of important nineteenth-century paintings

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

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six ... ), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous ... , the sciences, and engineering. The Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your application (assuming you were in the applicant pool)? Knowing that each app

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  time was had by all. I invited a fellow who is actually an alumnus of my ... connections, even as a freshman. For those of you coming here in the fall, be ... Yep, I'm officially Course 11. A few interesting things have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived ... a rat.
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT’s mascot/school colors?

  Our mascot is a beaver—nature's original engineer. Perfect, right? Tim the Beaver has been a member of the MIT community for 100 years. MIT's school colors are cardinal red and silver gray.
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... mailing list culture I really appreciate that I work at a place where ... a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a ... address at last week's forum. "David D. Ho, M.D. (HST '87) is the ... AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute. He

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006