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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  it’s drowning in work, needing a calculator for an exam in the next 10 ... reputation, especially for us nerds. In particular, as a multiracial woman, I ... new sorority coming to MIT. There was an increased demand for greek life

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  well. First of all, I like being an urban planning major. I’m taking a public policy class (in my major), an accounting class (in Sloan), and a language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  a technology strategist in his days and is an active Educational Counselor for MIT in his spare time. Ian and Peggy have been best friends ... 's blog, my colleague Joanne's dog Evie is somewhat of an office mascot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  , religions, backgrounds, you name it. It’s an exciting environment to be in ... is debatable) together bounded by immense love for learning. In recent ... them to receive an amazing education in such a conducive environment has

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an awesome CPW weekend. In fact, CPW didn't even exist...What did exist however, was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... ” principle holds for the U.S. intervention in Iraq (he responded by asking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  , telling me that we're going to school (for some odd reason, I never used an ... managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the ... at MIT. ----- Discovery. Discovery for me came in many forms - I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  powered respirator for wildland firefighters, in MIT's biggest auditorium ... slate and with a definition for what would actually constitute an ... specific, for example: Fires in landfills), and from that point on, we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  About a month and a half ago, I received an email from Sneha '13, asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya '13 came up with and entered in the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Earlier

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  act as an Admissions Officer for a fictional College or University ... reasons for your decisions. In addition to the brief directives provided in ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  an awful lot of meals in a dining hall. Notice that I said "a dining ... dining halls, it's good for all of them. So if you live in Next and you ... dining hall dorms...you can probably see the conflict). Not in an FSILG

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  back for, and that, obviously, is the most fun we have all year. Since we're all scattered across the country in quarantine, we thought the best we could to do honor this tradition was talk for a couple of hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... -white fat, an indulgent contrast to the sleek silky sheaths of leek in company ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  'd write more, but I'm still finishing 2 psets), but I believe this is an important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not ... this year) In more substantial matters: Coming up: (after my Patriot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  an MIT class be without some form of software associated with it. In ... classes, 7.05 Biochemistry. Class Details: Lecture: 3 times a week for 1.5 hours Recitation: Once a week for 1 hour Problem Sets: 8, not graded Exams

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting. Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will ... companies in America, William I. Koch is an international businessman

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

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  used for computers or plug-in hybrid vehicles. These batteries are also ... and photovoltaics. Hammond holds an SB and PhD in chemical engineering ... and, from 1995 to 1997, as Associate Director for Science in the Office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  With another add date passing and classes in full swing, I thought I'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ! Apple Bake has been a fall culinary tradition in Burton-Conner for the ... for an entire weekend, flooded the field, and won most of the prize ... three of the seven categories (including Best Overall for an apple

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  and Counterpoint II) and signed up for an X-tra Special musicianship ... for 30 minutes and went to a lab meeting and started an e & m ... edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009