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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  , wrote an article called “The People We Have Been Waiting For.” In it, he ... equivalency or better.” The Linux of cars! They’re not waiting for G.M. Their ... hope: “We are the people we have been waiting for.”

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted ... their questions and facilitating things for the transfer admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again It's been three years, but I'm back!

  

  That's right - the last time I was on campus for CPW was three years ... campus in 2022 and, just for funsies, I dragged the whole streaming setup ... . For those not coming on campus, check the stream and drop by in the chat

  • by Snively '11
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  Hospital for the meeting, thanks to one of our Educational Counselors who ... throughout the meeting -- thank you for sticking it out. I hope the meeting was ... on this day. To acknowledge the day, I asked the Miami crowd for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  will receive a phone call.  For the adult show, you usually given about ... for the shuttle to the studio. When everyone got to the studio, Maggie ... for a part of a second.  There are lights on the left and right sides

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc. For example, last week, some people constructed the following to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... packed and ready for Charleston. The flight was about 2 hours, and from the airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  go with the SPAM joke?” Will he follow through on the Monty Python subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now ... joke about Scrapple? What devious pun lies in wait? The suspense is too

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we ... for a subtle blend of vodka, cabbage and Soviet style. B: Secondly the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  ; [warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons ... to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... judgments, and how the show seemed to tut at me for it, showing me that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  's, like, facebook-official dude!), which makes me enormously happy because (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch and (b) I can blog about it. (By the way - while I may write

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  hacking into the mainframe, so I spent about an hour configuring my VSCode to look like im hacking the mainframe: I went through a few fonts ... boolean algebra. The first lab was pretty fun but---because I'm brainrotted

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  determine the class list way before Registration Day. It’s great for ... remaining time at MIT. Begrudgingly, I chose the other class over 21W.744, for ... emailed back saying that the class was full, but then opened a spot for me a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  for all who desire it. Opened in the 1960s to improve education access for people from lower income groups, the OU was the world’s first ... for conventional university. At the OU, the qualifications that the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over, while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are ... limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four organizers, so we have been organizing everything for the past month. Luckily ... MIT jazz trio provided some amazing music for the party (picture below

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  introduce students to the tools they'll be using for 2.007. Today was my ... , so some of the processes have been streamlined for time efficiency ... , the project. In years past it's been customary for students in 2.670 to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  for several days; in the worst, a week or more. And the Internet will ... extending our application deadline for for students affected by the storm, i.e. lost power / Internet for 24 hours or more. The new deadline for those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very ... topic for the rest of this post and the points listed underneath are all

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  the forge, cropped ones for social events that don't include bits of flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... Metropolis for the use of their sewing machine, and for the friends who showed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024