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• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  and the rest of the administration have in me," he told the MIT News ... vibrancy and energy with them, and I respect the importance of the role the ... senior associate director of admissions and director of the Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had ... on everything from my interest in the subject, the pace of the lecture ... ="116766" /] Scratch paper These are the messiest parts of my notebook. The main way I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how MIT almost became a pirate fortress in the middle of the Charles. Via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  talked with Teesa '08 (Course 8: Physics) about Kiss of the Spider Woman ... Exchange. Professor Henderson taught us the proper pronounciation of the ... do you think? = ? This reminded me of the Student Mural Project at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin ... can only bridge a bit of the distance! Many of the kids we've taught are

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  statement, and the sharp crack of ice breaking in the horse trough signals the ... to the cozy warmth and twinkling lights of Boston's snow-covered brick ... 't just about picturesque scenes of snow and charming moments by the fire

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty, alumni, and staff, and raising awareness of their unique experiences
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to ... fear; you will not be released into the wild, unpredictable territory of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... Paris exploring the history and culture of the city and speaking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... things here and there on the blog, but I'd be doing a lot more of them were ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about ... surrounded by the trilling of mountain streams. By far the best hike I went on ... of Seattle's many mountains. The trail was absolutely magical

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• 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…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... "] John Napier's Mirifici Logarithmorum, where he devises the theory of ... manuscripts from the School of Kerala, which showed their work in calculus and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  ("Why the exponential growth? Learning coding consists of two parts. 1 ... of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer ... top of everything else the class assigned. By the end of the semester

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... University of Denmark). Investigates the significance of wet underwear and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led ... the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old ... those of you that haven’t gotten there yet, Chris always has some of the ... , awesome, LOL, to the left of the interdimensional door, YES YOU CAN #Chinese

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... 've plumbed the details of syn addition, Markovnikov's rule, carbocation

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  Sunday, 12:31 AM: The coin was found by The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It ... captained by my friend Dan '03. Way to go! Dan '03 of The Evil Midnight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  exhausted (Amy)... All in all, we're relieved that this part of the journey is ... Well folks, the time has come. Note that the pic up top has changed to reflect the clean-shaven face, as promised (sorry mootmom, but a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005