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• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  . Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion. The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and ... cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the ... to be doing a 2.003 pset, and it really isn't a lot of fun. Adelaide

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  , my interviewer was pretty surprised at the range of colleges that I was ... at the buildings, the location, and the strength of the engineering and ... schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to answer all of the questions you've left in the comments. ... 've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time, due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Meets The OC Be sure to watch the April 6 episode!

  

  Oh, so good. Joanne witnessed the convergence of two of her loves a ... : Ben From: Monica Subject: MIT and one of your favorite shows... Hello ... received an inquiry this week that (as an occasional reader of your blog

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  " event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls ... was pretty fun, and there was a lot of free pizza and stuff to drink ... composition due in nine hours that has me adopting the identity of someone

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  perpetual state of running around and doing five things at once.   ... hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  the swing of things tomorrow. It will be a little strange to be back ... the new application season for the Class of 2010. My first Admissions ... will include a brief recap of my time in Asia, a Questions Omnibus, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  -faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to ... Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are Psets?

  psets. Problem sets are the backbone of our teaching in many subjects; for many, problem-solving is the essence of the MIT education. Faculty vary as to the portion of course credit derived from psets. In some cases
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Set Theory. After 4 hours of teaching at that point, I was quite tired ... come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  , design, and build their robots, which are then sent out to at least one of ... hours of information sessions at the MIT booth, and slumping in awe at the ... Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  lot of yelling. I got chewed out (and was really sad about it) during at ... ML at this hour, and all of them were busy PSETting, so Ayyub rolled me ... its rehearsals here, Next Act uses it for shows at the end of the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  toy, the Etch A Sketch. Look at that beautiful 2.00b logo!   Some of ... Equations- Modeling the world, one equation at a time! CMS.376: History of ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  decisions at MIT are made following a holistic, subjective review of each ... Angeles/Westwood: Thursday, September 29, 7:00pm; Hoffman Hall at Westwood ... ; Theatre Building at California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Camphor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  for CityLab. Yet it feels as though I’ve lost (at least part of) my ... at The Atlantic and former professor of mine (he was a visiting scholar at MIT these past two years) was taking care of some business at the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT ... (those of you who went to the Closing Remarks and Variety Show at CPW may ... montage of the performances at the Closing Variety Show at CPW this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  on the monitors. That’s one of the problems the startup I’m working at ... , or to easily be able to make contributions of my own. The culture at ... at Flatbread, where all of the interns got to meet each other over

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45 ... Incident of the Box in the Night-time was performed at least four times on ... , the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny and goes madly deskless. It

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009