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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  allegory has been added, that follows a pattern of institutional evolution ... traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... Center for Neuroscience & Technology. I consider this MIT ... lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Institute Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer ... an impulse buy of some Star Wars: Episode III valentines the other day ... tonight, I noticed that none of them are really appropriate for showing true

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle ... offer) or decline it. We will be maintaining the waitlist for another few

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  conform to the average pari-sneeze*** head tilt angle of 35.74 degrees, I ... .” Every sneeze is different. Degree of head or body tilt (before and during ... is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  (short for Massachusetts Institute of Culinary Experiences), a team of ... Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the ... like this: Some version of calculus Some version of physics Some version of chemistry A humanities, arts and social science (HASS) elective

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  college application essays over cups and cups of coffee. After some brutal months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  Kellen Manning, Communications Coordinator for MIT's Division of Student ... @MITStudents, which I myself follow and often interact with. He offered to send me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010 ... classes, especially the class of 2011, are preparing to run the gauntlet

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  is the medium of instruction" school. My school offers a very limited ... specifics of academic potential are part of of match ... any way of knowing what the admission decision is online or through e

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  the most of the Institute when you're here. You can learn more about ... get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  of a chief technology officer for the nation. _Comic books. As a ... not technological enough. The other presidents came of age before geek ... ’) Happy Holidays blogosphere. Some of you may be wondering where I have been

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  general Institute funds. Sixty-four percent of undergraduates qualify for ... needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding ... to all of our admitted students, without regard to their economic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  classmates, Megan Smith is now the current Chief Technology Officer of the ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all-you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall ... variety of food Maseeh offers. As someone who observes a halal-diet, my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  if virtually) an institution full of students with a vibrant sense of ... the best youth of this and other countries, the Institute is obligated ... millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020