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• 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

  

  conga line that was started by the Moon Institute of Technology Club, a ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... ) "On the 14th of March, MMXXV, The High Elders foretold a cursed

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  obligation, is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of ... energy-efficient technologies. John M. Deutch is an Institute Professor ... " new level of federal funding for clean energy research. The event came

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  other blogs. I do read all of your comments, and even if I don't respond ... personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to reprint comments from two of our Educational Counselors (ECs), Greg H and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of ... The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation provides grants and ... the marketplace. The center empowers some of MIT’s most talented
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  Institute of Technology" wouldn't fit, but it would be fine to list it instead ... Computer Science.' Also one of my brother's received a bachelors degree and ... , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In an essay in ... my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts ... Studies professor Henry Jenkins for reasons why the popularity of Rain has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  ." - William Barton Rogers, Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology (1860 ... was instituted in 1948 upon the recommendation of an athletics committee ... considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home. Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  weeks since an even more significant phase change of life, involving a ... writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  Program (SSEP) Women's Technology Program (WTP) Programs open to out-of ... further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the below are national/international, selective

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  each year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No previous ... students to explore the Institute through an engineering competition ... of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... do our own correlation studies," said Marilee Jones, the dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  . How did this all start? The history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen ... To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  ?The history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back ... Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter ... undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in ... explaining how the entire TEAL (Technology Enabled Active Learning) format of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without ... that could be found in almost every corner of the institution. Although ... to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  : (This is how I brainstorm most of my doodle entries, for those of you who ... , Parks and Rec, and the Oregon Ducks). Another thing on the list of things ... feat of making science unbelievably boring. So while I was at home this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013