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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to ... , Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. History 21H.001 How to Stage a Revolution

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put up "no later than this Friday." Two and a half Fridays later (or ... from way back in February, which are back with a vengeance (although

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  , a nap, more goodbyes, more packing -- and then suddenly I was turning ... other schools have this, but basically a week between finals and ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  MIT isn’t a political campus. Sure, it had its moments during the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  any information session are statistical. What is the average SAT score? How many students were admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a text message sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning ... excitement when I saw a poster advertising her upcoming MIT visit, which was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  really is just a nice memory. So after waking across the bridge last night ... I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A ... comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  in EA. That's a small number, but to be honest so is the number of RA ... (EA) applicants. There was a definitive resolution for those students ... to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  is a kickstarter called The Institvte: A Photobook: Hi! My name is Mark ... Institvte is a story about a school, its architecture and environment. Most of all, it's a story about culture, mindset, and people. MIT is known as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  walking by. Imagine a culture where David Hasselhoff is a tabloid celebrity ... I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... with a cliffhanger--Ruth asking about an entry on David Hasselhoff. Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  -so-secret love for the Internet. Things just happen so much faster online, with a ... was warm. I walked around without a hat or gloves and didn't feel the ... 't changed is my personal proclivity towards "doing things": whether it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  way. Below is a shot of Susan Hockfield staring with barely ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  : TODAY IS LEAP DAY! Leap Day, I'm sure you already know, comes from the fact that the earth's revolution around the Sun is not perfectly 365 days ... life. Going wayy back... (1988) - I was born on a leap year, but I guess

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in the Z-Center (no, really) and I'm so disheartened by this that a ... environs. I'm fine, Sam's Mom. But I'm obviously not a natural runner, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vlogging about Course 3 and Applying to MIT A video in which I talk to myself and I am an awkward MIT student…

  

  I did the vlog thing!   I didn't take a video of a cat, but here is a picture of Rory:

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There’s something happening here what it is ain't exactly clear

  

  Working on a big project. A big awesome project. Can't tell you what it is. But here's a sneak peak. Make of it what you will.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me ... Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017