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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  arrived late due to practice schedules Chris '15 attempts to bring a ... his pow pow only lasts for a couple hours... Brothers begin to ... Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... as FIESTACON and is sure to be every bit as fun and productive and a ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  great opportunity to get to know a few dozen classmates well, before ... control boxes, participants get to take a cruise of Boston Harbor and learn ... ! More on that soon... ...and a mini-contest! Welcome to campus, MIT MMX

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are ... already taken the SAT/ACT, and cannot find a forthcoming opportunity to do ... agnostic as to whether a student who has taken the exams should submit their

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... up of a mix of everyone's interests. It's pretty clear to me that this

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  referred to as "W1") into a "New" magical dorm (NW35 or the "New" Ashdown ... undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final construction plans, to establish a government system and to begin the dorm

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  others having similar reunions. My mom tried to get a sense of what life ... Harvard Bridge to have dinner in Boston, and a trip to Star Market for ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  gathering of similar magnitude to my past adventures. This one, a ... bet our countrymen never gave up due to a little bit of precipitation ... left the dorm at 11:30 so we could go to the mall and pick up a super

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter ... a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a ... work? The answer has to do with winding numbers. A cut is a closed curve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... place. I freaked out, and grabbed the girl next to me; a shout-out to ... afternoon, my host and I took a walk around the area, to clear our heads and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition ... Baker House. [How To GAMIT 2004] Bruno - A unit of volume equal to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  -being? Please take a few minutes to participate and provide your perspective. To ... friend had a better response to the last question than the blank that i had: ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... to do a less chewing and a lot more moving. ... I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  deliver* a sandwich to the first person(s) to solve it from scratch**. *The ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a ... now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... maybe my entry may have persuaded you to pick the red chair. It was a well ... installed in 10-250, MIT's most popular lecture hall? If not, take a quick

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... , which seems just so MIT to me: ''Whenever I see a problem, I become

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  The MIT Early Action application deadline has been extended to ... States was hit by a devastating snowstorm this past weekend. The storm, which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2

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

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  GELcamp started with a two-hour bus-ride from campus to New Hampshire, where ... much, so I was surprised to be greeted by a cozy summer camp with dozens ... build a solar farm to help offset MIT’s carbon emissions! Half the time we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025