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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  (during CPW, if you stay in a fraternity, sorority, or independent living group, your host is the house, rather than a particular person). You ... first date - a list of things that the male is supposed to do, and a list

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  instrument. 1. Do you have to be a music major to perform in MIT's ensembles ... , private instruction. But all students with a serious interest in music ... to them in a given ensemble for the upcoming semester. The faculty will

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  ’s advice on how MIT could best explore its historical connections in this ... , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  of buzzwords, like a pufferfish wrapped in chain mail and festooned ... prospective students talk to each other. This blog is a huge part of that ... by an alien witch living in a dumpster on the moon a first-class online

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... just before you're told how the ref rules, the screen freezes and a voice ... selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  dorm room, open my eyes for real, and take in the world. There's a lot ... , headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks ... Notch National Forest and State Park. It was a truly incredible trip: we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... came up last semester over a lunch meeting at the Forbes Family Cafe in ... and Star in a classroom in Building 1, with Minh in her dorm, Mc

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  Sometimes taking a little time to recharge is really all you need. I've been spending hours in used bookstores and swimming and taking deep ... you guys, though - watch for a pretty important entry coming up about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a carabiner on a nail, displayed on the ledge around my room, hidden in a desk

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does MIT help student entrepreneurs?

  and experienced entrepreneurs with skilled volunteer mentors. VMS uses a ... the entrepreneur(s) in sessions that provide practical, day
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  how things are looking here. Admitting a class is hard work, full of ... announced on the blogs when we mail the decisions.Selection time is a very ... A few notes from selection: No decisions are yet final. We are still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  , but a few key ones. 1) Classes are harder 2) Classes are in your major ... ). Unless you kicked some serious butt in a crazily academic high school or ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  relevant to students in 2016 A.D.): Lastly, here is an 1895 ... reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... 't have a cohesive campus until 1916, much to the lamentation of some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and their pet fish. In this case, whereas Mitra has provided a professional ... constituencies if they get a picture with Bono flashing a peace sign in his purple

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  their salary, but how much funding they got for their startup in series ... area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone ... It's been over a week since the May 2 reply deadline, and we know ... from the wait list. This year, we had a record-high percentage of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  . One way to bypass this limitation is to launch a telescope in multiple ... Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly ... chat/climb in the Northeast this fall. ^This is networking! Or take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  have their own lengthy Wikipedia page, in addition to a chronology at ... . Was it from a hacker him/herself? ;) Regardless, here are the rings in ... Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact? Great, whatever. Then I reached spot A-12. Sitting in said spot was a ... in science and engineering fields being a big priority for MIT, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007