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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  laughed. The last I had heard from him, Hassan had been in New York, so I ... ) and Stanley Opara, Director of Partnerships, at a Blockchain conference ... join Sela in the fall as CTO. That was how he got to New York, where Sela

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... New York short, which was a huge bummer. But I wanted time to rest, and ... the Skating Club of Boston or at the MIT rink, or the Burton Conner or Z

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  offers. Thus, this semester marks a brand new start for me at MIT. Moral ... classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... very new to me even though it's my 7th one here. I have been through a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  miss Mikey, who has left us to attend grad school at the university down ... anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... "peasant" of a student, not a "poet" if that makes any sense at all), but now

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about ... . Despite being a New York native all my life, this is the first time I ... aware of my own mortality, at the very real prospect of being gone in an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  courses. Last year, at the undergraduate level, 36% of engineering majors and 51% of science majors at MIT were women (as were 51% of humanities ... I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  . Ignatius at Seattle University. Simmons Hall, in case you don't already know ... architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  top it Yum yum -- romantic dining Aujourd'hui -- at the top of my list ... house" Franklin Park Zoo MIT Outing Club Cabin New York City It's not you ... Street subway stop -- at the crossroads of the red line, the green line

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the Class of 2009. I was admitted early action and received the news around ... universities and I didn't have the benefit or services of a college counselor

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  expectations, (3) accepting new ideas, and (4) offering individual attention as ... first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about another new class called 21H.000 History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics. It meets every Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  of the piece, I offer extra thoughts. I’ve awakened a deep fascination ...  "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything." It ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  instant's action at the edge of the universe? What is just beyond that ... , but an infinite series of universes expanding into one another, all at ... editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale (CUWPY). So, instead of ... like being fitted with a new pair of arms. The flash went off constantly ... downtown parts of New Haven, but are also central to the Yale campus. Walking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class ... happens to be the official name of the course. The class has been offered ... place in the new curriculum, so this is the last term that it was offered

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  and tweet at least five times a day to project some kind of image. I ... . Her parents want her to go abroad to the University of Paris. She’s not ... ’s a lot of opportunity at MIT to open up and explore things you haven

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  new bags of supplies when necessary. At one point, we ran out of ... giddy, I sent a flurry of e-mails to New House exec, to New House as a ... anticipated) I had a list of names and numbers of people who had offered to help

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013