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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  fun facts for the price of one)! ... , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  leave it alone without its partner Ring Delivery. And seeing as the Brass ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I swear) for eight years at a time, but finals were busy, and summer came

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  hackers reserved an exhibit -- complete with photo booth -- for the ... appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses, programs, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  stroking for the day, the real reason is because today was so cool, so ... over for a job at the C.I.A Whoa, hold up, what? Yea, the C.I.A was ... 's impossible to rank the events by awesome, I've ranked them chronologically: 11

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  old, I realized for the first time that everybody else experienced ... "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at ... the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  somehow, for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the ... Picture this. A pavement somewhere along the infinitely stretching ... partially cut through. It’s 1994, Spring, chilly. The wind is silently

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel company he cofounded with some MIT classmates, is set to become the most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  high school self is yearning for the struggle at MIT. This struggle has ... it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now ... . My two passions were basketball and programming. I was on the Varsity

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  is always calmer than the ones that follow. For now at least, I ... maximize a proxy value for a quantity when you could maximize the quantity ... this is what my parents have been trying to tell me for the past eight or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  once the second semester started. In order to compensate for the ... like go to New York, or go to the beach, things like that. However, for ... to do. However, it is not the kind of thing that I enjoy for weeks at a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  Beantown outings. So you can imagine how big a deal it was for us when the ... school’s build team for robotics). Her focus in the world of computer ... qualified for the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions, to happen later this year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!

  

  filled with fun events like the McCormick Hall picnic and lots of energy ... concert, featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus! The opening act was ... during their set, and I am pretty happy with the results. After

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8 ... problems that involve infinitely stacked carts, people running at 80% of the ... amusing excerpts with you. Enjoy! (The point of the problem was to show

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and ... deploying Ten Red Weather Balloons all across the country. $40,000 goes to the first team to locate all of them, by any means necessary. The balloons

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... . Elsewhere on campus, the Halloween fervor was in full swing as students (and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  loneliness that really speaks to me, or the refuge of an old friend, even for ... the world is mocking you for your clumsiness, you will retain your ... encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  'm filing this entry under the "MIT's Mission: Who We Are" for a couple of ... 't say for sure, but this aspect of my personality was probably one of the ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week ... : very few of the photographs below are originals) Beacon Hill Boston ... Pearl for dim sum Theater District Downtown Crossing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool ... Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad Institute where they sequenced part of the human genome. - we walked

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  ’s archivist for reference services Nora Murphy, the class began last fall ... Earlier this week, MIT President Rafael Reif sent the following email to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018