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• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of ... campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  School who will attend Brown University in the fall, recalls a tour of ... staffers why, having gotten a degree from such a prestigious university, they ... admissions staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  process. Universities are never-ending places to learn — in and out of the ... Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  apartments over 2 days - all in 90-degree weather. There were all sorts of ... weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and ... home, heading away from the bubble of MIT towards the place I grew up. I ... at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... ... try the Kickboxing PE Class Looking for History of Magic, try: 21A.211 ... Introduction to Astronomy Looking for Care of Magical Creatures, try 21H.909

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  The MIT Class of 2017 Brass Rat was revealed on February 13th during the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring Committee, and I enjoyed designing our class's Brass Rat. As a lover of MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Squadron of West Virginia University to be the National Headquarters of ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... behalf of the society. During these sessions we had discussions with

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  of the world’s most important centers of information technology ... When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  bridged through the aims of technological innovation, regardless of ... Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a ... at exploring different methods of solar cell characterization and

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  . Sure enough... Eng holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rhode ... biomimetics at the University of Bath in England and has collaborated with MIT ... coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths of MIT fraternities and sororities and show what our communities are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• 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 ... Oppenheimer said "I am become death, the destroyer Of worlds", He was not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on-line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... Name: Mari McQuaid Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions ... on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  /animatics of Steven Universe episodes. It was SO cool to see how such simple and ... that we have [annotation note="emphasis on (?)"]kind of (?)[/annotation ... to hear as high school seniors. So, here is a part 2 post, kind of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  '10 & Mary Hong '10 hold up the fruit of the club's months of hard ... half of the grand plan is moving fast on track. Two weeks ago, the MIT ... .E. Taekwondo and loved it. Master Chuang (head Instructor of Sport TKD) brought

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  and technology. Through recognition of architecture as a liberal ... Architecture was one of the four original departments at MIT, and it ... humanities at MIT. The Department of Architecture is one of five divisions