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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  colleagues are calculating the limit of sleep as time approaches 3 PM, and I ... Must-Do's. So far, dim has been summed roughly every other weekend, and I ... . Dim Sum, like problem sets and arguably Communism, works best when done

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  drove to Devil's Lake State Park to race Wisconsin and BU. My parents ... name scroll quickly up a screen, and I'll see my diploma appear in the ... my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in ... ) at the Institute. STAND and Amnesty International are hosting two ... die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks ... to take cruft again and make it work again, or do something new and ... Institute Requirement. A class that all undergraduates must pass in order to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  ) and see that I've finished all 17 of my General Institute Requirements ... '05 and worked at the National Institutes of Health, which was a great ... (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  Finals season is well and officially upon us, but I couldn’t help but ... flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... ="attachment_107004" align="alignnone" width="300"] the universe (Siri) has spoken

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Institute for Talent Development and the Johns Hopkins University Center for ... , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some time and read it, you won't regret it: The Prodigy Puzzle I'm glad the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  Environmental Engineering degree), 1-C (Civil Engineering), and 1-E (Environmental ... mechanical engineering and general Institute requirements. Some examples of ... star. Now that I have a few months left at the Institute and I’ve gone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  accepted to a university that I sincerely and deeply wanted to attend, but ... today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  community in the state of Massachusetts and many lovely bakeries and cafes ... students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and community ... the internet]'s time as ruler rises and falls like the Sun, so now it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and just before you're told how the ref rules, the screen freezes and a voice

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  , the MIT Glass Lab and Wyss Institute. Researchers include: John Klein ... including folks from mechanical engineering and the Glass Lab, had figured out ... , Mediated Matter posted an (incredibly satisfying and visually gorgeous) video

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  Snively and briefly-but-awesomely faked him out with a real thick southern ... , I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time ... night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  were discussing their master’s degrees in Ireland, and a senior shared ... student had a degree in teaching and devoted summers to writing. There was ... I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  United States and to MIT, that overwhelming sense of utter fascination, of ... lead the meetings, and talk about the state of the company. Different ... With several of the core General Institute Requirements out of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  or university. The lectures, concerts, interesting conversations, and ... 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

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

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  were anything like me last year, you will probably be jumping up and down ... bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a ... Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  majority ethnicity for one- and the Institute really believes in a person ... states that Elmhurst College is committed to diversity and that if people ... a wonderful institution in so many ways and no matter how you choose

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  Trivia: By population, which US states are most and least represented in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is most represented, and what is the most populous country to have no MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  California-Los Angeles, Boston University, and Harvard. I also know from ... rights. Currently, Massachusetts is the only state where gay marriage is legal. The very first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the USA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005