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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  , one of the most important aspects of being here is the world directly outside MIT. The "M," if you will. After graduating, I kind of felt like ... Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... the form of awesome things. Even though I'm not myself an engineer, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  college admissions-themed scholarship competition. The first of six episodes aired last night. ABC describes it like this: The opportunity of a ... give the winner a college education from a top-rated school of their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process ... great care and thoroughness that they deserve. On behalf of the entire ... Illimani. This is certainly one of the exciting things about college that you

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... least five (5!) distinct brands of dried squid meat. By “we” in the last sentence, I mean “Yan, who privately enjoys the briny gristle of dehydrated

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the ... people walked out of the front doors that night as he approached the building, holding nylon bags that sagged under the pressure of salad plates

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  the DARK BLUE team. As of today, the map looks like this: We are now ... wished that somehow all of those games were combined into one? A little ... your own armies, your own territory, your own sweet victory? The UA

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  and Notes Form. Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have ... rest of your college applications this cycle. The balance of the ... . Thank you. Again, congratulations to the newest members of the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is ... on others. I think it's important to not let the absence of others

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  attendees and found out that a lot of them came all the way from the West ... student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  final week of excitement at MIT. Events include "Breakfast with the ... representative of the class as a whole. They are not random, but rather students ... -representative things can be seen: two of the students will be working for Lehman Brothers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... Minor, making special note of the soprano's oblique motion against the bass and the correct preparation and downward resolution of the sevenths

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2012." Which, don't get me wrong ... morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... warning, the sun suddenly just breaks through out of nowhere and illuminates

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing ... year--two years ago, the mission requirement was to carry 2 liters of water to a 100-meter altitude and then dump it out of the airplane like an

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore ... a future blog post, but the classes were definitely the hardest they

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both ... course of study and institutional offerings. ... is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point ... students for the Class of 2019, not even Leeroy Jenkins. We have seen all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision and come to MIT =) If any of you saw the Wall Street Journal today, the ... every two years to the nation’s most promising economist under the age of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There ... it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of REX/Rush? The last day of REX/Rush? Reg day? I have no idea. But I do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018