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• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  actually won a game for once. Highlight of the Game: When the mascot did the ... for a bit because I was leaving the next morning for the Lone Star State ... . In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first ... -based classes designed for students who are interested in taking an active role in their education. Instruction takes place in a 14-room suite on the top
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  , memorabilia, and snacks for college away in my mom’s Kia Rio as the dynamic duo ... the picture perfect start to ease my wave of nerves and angst, for what ... . What the OME has done for me to prepare for my first week here as I write

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  my old top choice came. I wavered for a moment. I knew at either of the ... convincing, further affirmation that MIT was really the right place for me ... . In the meantime, my mother made plans for a future carpool arrangement

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... hyperenergetic refueling station for the 2009 Mystery Hunt team members as we ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the

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

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... is referenced by name rather than number (although for reference, the ... throughout the playing field which act as landmarks for robots using mapping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  even force the Pulitzer committee to start a new Pulitzer category for ... . On the original night that I had set aside for my blogging rampage, it ... stands for Freshman Arts Seminar Advising Program, but the other title

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  the deadline for Early Action. Here are some things we want you to know ... this date and you will still be fine. Please allow five days for the ... follow the progress of your application and please allow five days for

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the ... ’t you the least bit terrified?” “Is it even legal for you to drive here ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the ... the highest building in Cambridge! Or, more accurately, they do that at midnight.  At 8 pm, they go around and beg for candy from dorm desk workers

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am ... for anything. The great thing about our campus is, you have the option ... /Community), and being an ambassador for both the Alumni Association and the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  out of the 20th century. So putting this in the context of your college education, here are a few questions: 1. What are the skills you hope to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Graduation Webcast You can watch MIT's Commencement live and online.

  

  , including the Commencement Address by Ben Bernanke PhD '79, Chairman of the ... Webcast here The webcast begins at 8:20 am Eastern Daylight Time with a special "pregame show" hosted by Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  @mit.edu   ~ For you first-time or novice traders, come try it out! See the ... the world of high finance; it will also serve as a powerful platform for ... emerging from our research, it is also a classroom for teaching the people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the best on the planet. Mathematics provides a language and tools for understanding the physical world around us and the abstract world within us. MIT
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price ... brand new, gleaming silver Ford Mustang GT, which I was getting for the ... for me - aren't moms awesome? Sunday night was the Philly central

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  – Borderline Exec meeting to plan for our first general body meeting of the ... the green building to make a test for Borderline while Danny did ... picking the next day because we still have to study for 6.042 2:00am

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  , but it didn't matter. It was all worth it to me for the element of ... course of history. It started, as most adventures do, with the hunt for ... 's a tip for you when you make the trip out to Boston: if you are going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to ... mom for the school year while I used the nicer MIT-provided iPad. Every ... my career as an influencer by making unboxing videos for the iPad and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020