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• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... it, and a tall, steep slide with no railings, a relic of past building

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is ... Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned ... time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... talking of long hours Projects, Psets, Parties, Psets, Performances, Plays

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  to the MIT Class of 2013!), that you're declining our offer of ... Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to come together quickly. The national reply date of May 1 is rapidly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the ... about my journey, and I thought I'd share some of them with you all to see ... direct to LAX. I spent most of the flight napping and reading back issues

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense ... , when thousands of bloggers dedicate their blogs to talking about one ... than lolcats...hopefully. This year's theme is poverty, and a couple of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The implication, of course, is euphemistically known as affirmative action. You may ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... [by Vicky Thomas '12] Like most of you reading this, I stalk these ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  I don't usually watch TV but recently I saw a few episodes of The ... (Head Honcho of the Bloggers and Senior Counselor for Web Communications) sent out an email with a link to a retweet by @cmsw_mit of a tweet by

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  , no less - also had a discussion with me. One of them even offered me a ... Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the IvyPlus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  disheartening than others. A friend of mine offers this: once the cycle of tests ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• 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 / Academics & Research

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

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... aerospace. From the start, I knew that MIT had a strong culture of computer science--’Course 6’. So much so, that about a third of my class ended up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory ... should have tossed the upright piano onto the baby grand instead of the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A Minor, making special note of the soprano's oblique motion against the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  the last two telethons but, alas, this year the 9 degree weather outside is just too much of a deterrent, it's so nice and warm inside that I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009