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• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  length equal to the height of Oliver Smoot '62, most commonly used for the ... Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" for the better part of a ... MIT in 1934 “for all who might be interested in knowing more about the ... , and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their ... contents of the periodic table for a quiz. This basically means that everyone ... !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on ... . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We ... Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... of the blogs have illustrated, school is often exciting, but when the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  . I'm also a lot busier and, like I said, stressed. Luckily the Lab for ... Lobby 10 during finals. And for the purists out there I'll quickly add ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I get on the mailing list?

  We don't do a lot of mailing, but you can sign up for our awesome monthly email newsletter that shares what's happening on campus and—if you're applying—provides updates and tips.    
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  now). But wait, there's more! I'll save the full story for later ... the "Oh the memories, it went by so fast, if only I had more time" crap and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  the first time I made breakfast for the family I was probably 7 or 8). I ... it well! For those of you that don’t know, behind the scenes, there ... not be here if it were not for her. She was the first person to believe

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... being a blogger, which, lol). But for tonight, though, you can watch the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at MIT, sharing and analyzing the findings from an extensive survey designed and administered in 2014. The takeaway: young women at MIT are every

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  , what are your goals for the summer? Finish the project!!! Also go on fun ... for the summer that can (but doesn't have to) be related to your ... sweet. What are you up to for the rest of the summer? I’m working on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  thoughts into the mix. You know, for the record and all. Please keep in mind ... ) "stretches" the requirements for girls, the fact is that people perceive that ... someone comes forward and claims responsibility for hating on all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links ... ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a ... Choice of Major website. Sara wrote, "For the next Omnibus: - Is it ok to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my ... for the Harvard bus, and I’ve ignored a man telling the entire bus about ... I grew up without any public transportation. The closest thing we had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Pluto for 35 years and helped design the New Horizon's spacecraft. “Just ... invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of ... . Now works for the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). "When Leslie and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  school did not prepare you for a basic survival skill. Your group was the ... in the woods for an hour, meditating in a special way. You watched a ... guilty conscience. Just can’t. College Comp was also the class for which

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  high fidelity business. For the next 15 years, he designed equipment and ... director of curriculum for the Englewood Public Schools and oversaw a ... teachers was recently named New Jersey Teacher of the Year. Here's what the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005