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President Susan Hockfield
To: "All Members of the MIT Community" From: "Kathryn A ... for Susan Hockfield To all members of the MIT community:   ... Hockfield on her first day as president of MIT. Monday, December 6 -
Blog / Admissions
The reading season begins
? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases -
FAQ / First-year application
Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?
-year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the university level. Information on transfer credit is available at the Office of -
FAQ / Academics and research
How does pass/no record work?
of A/B/C. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you ... after your first term, and at any time during your course of study. -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?
predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth ... of Global Change, and the MIT Energy Initiative. -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?
One of the highlights of MIT's yearly academic challenges and competitions, the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge, connects students with the passion and talent to improve the world with the experience and resources of -
FAQ / Life and culture
How does one attain a Pirate License?
undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate ... H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate ... of physical education. “They’re tactical. They involve strategy. Plus -
Blog / Academics & Research
Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!
figuring out the optimal scoop-ability of your favorite [annotation note="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?
the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... movie adaptations of good books, clothes that are the wrong size, the -
Blog / Life after MIT
Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations
died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world -
Blog / Academics & Research
Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history
had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more ... did not say it was impossible.) Glamour shot of the East Campus -
Blog / Academics & Research
Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"
to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if ... tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to -
Blog / Admissions
On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.
“hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket ... ’d totally rock an MIT-themed Family Feud episode. What do all of those have -
Blog / MIT Life
Sunday in the Park With chemistry
stampede of Nike-shod joggers, you can congratulate yourself by turning left down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever seen outside of a salad that contains neither fruit, nor croutons, nor -
Blog / Events
Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before
weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a ... Steer Roast as an extreme barbeque: instead of grilling hamburgers and hot -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.
in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists with cameras, taking pictures of the most random, well, crap, that I've ever seen. Pictures that I've seen taken include pictures of a wall, of a -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…
ROTC Color Guard was something along the lines of, "You see that man over ... in the Air Force." Both men instantly had my respect. One of the many ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a -
Blog / MIT Life
Things you might have wanted to know
curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... large chunk of Cambridge, and part of the Charles River, with the Museum -
Blog / Hacks
Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.
name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night. My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a