Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  minimize harm to the rest of the Solar System. The trolley is traveling at 1 ... Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... does Pi Day look like at MIT? Do students eat pie? Do people recite the

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  perform amazingly at the school of your choice. So I'll be lame and close ... heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli Keuhne (professional golfer who attended the University of Texas) Right

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of ... ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night. - When J. Robert

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing. This thing is TOFU. TOFU is the baby of Ryan Wistort, a grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  . It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... somebody else will take care of my life. iii. This is my theory about age

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in ... be a slippery slope. We have to protect the integrity of the program at ... .e. none of this October business from last year!). I've spent a ton of time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• 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 ... your stories with us. We have all been truly inspired by them. Many of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  know many of you have been anxiously awaiting news about our wait list ... unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  at the intersection and combination of EECS and BCS in Course 6-9. Two ... whatever classes they want, within the constraint of satisfying their degree ... this list, you can perhaps get a look at how pursuing one avenue of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  are walking around campus, be sure to look around at all of MIT”s Public Art offerings. Best viewed with a clover food truck sandwich in hand, of ... BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  Italy. Second of all, I was officially offered a job at Telefónica. If ... friends have been to even the UK (of all non-exotic places, at least from ... Jersey or the same floor of the same dorm at MIT, I'm finally taking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  before." Taking her up on her offer, I pored over many of the pamphlets in ... If you are at all following the news, you'll know that the US ... debate. Just like every political debate, the "Constitutionality" of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  temporary offering, had only been around at MIT for five years. Over the two ... . They've been doing a heck of a job. Abigail told me that attendance at ... at MIT, a member of G@MIT, and a prospective political science / math

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world ... will come to MIT to study, I look forward to seeing many of you at CPW in ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  production of Man of La Mancha and I got seated right behind the sound board ... mysteriously lit by the glow of the microphone rack who constantly shuffled their ... was actually a result of a few kids scrambling around behind the scenes

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... talking of long hours Projects, Psets, Parties, Psets, Performances, Plays

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... down, being an MIT student at all is something that I should be proud of ... of shot an application at PlayStation for the heck of it; also, my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009