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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  at the Institute—and he's been practicing his craft in Lobby 10 ever ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  loved and accepted and celebrated. "The arc of the moral universe is ... over, and many emotions are running through many people on campus. Many ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  , and antiques in the United States.' " 'Things I Love' features choice ... , chemical engineer trained at MIT, world-class sailor, and devoted father. A ... 's interest in sailing and the sea (Koch captured the America's Cup in 1992

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  projects and a writing portfolio and all that. Now I have no finals while almost everyone else is kickin it into full gear to ace their own tests and ... of the past ten years (go back and forth with the bracket keys

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for ... January 1. If you are applying on paper, have the Post Office postmark and ... deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process and for it to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  Office postmark and mail your materials on or before January 1. However, I ... and for it to appear on your Application Tracking. Our records office is fully staffed over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... Class of 2009 14% admit rate. We received 10,443 applications and ... : the MIT Class of 2009 will be composed of 53% male students and 47

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  and happy New Year! There's a new kid on the blogs, halfway through the year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people ... cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and ... . '10, and I am indeed an MIT student. (Eight months after receiving the ... , where it's okay that I wear t-shirts and flip flops in December. When it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  the People's Republic of China winning and the United States once again ... the 2012 Summer Olympics. And this coming February (while we ... disciplines as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Informatics. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside... The sky was overcast, but I spy with my little eyes...OCEAN. And then ... teachers gathered with the program coordinators and Korean teaching

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were ... Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my ... (and huge crowds!) in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago (both the city and

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  Italian is offered, and only over IAP.) The very first humanities course I ... This IAP I took Italian I, and it was basically awesome. You might ... ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  , Physics professor Scott Hughes, Professor of Urban Studies and History Robert Fogelson, and Foreign Languages professor Margery Resnick. It's cool ... presidential election, Massachusetts public schools, university riots in the '60s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  , Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who ... ). Stephen, though, had some unkind words about MIT, and moreover didn't seem

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... weirdos and nerds; it’s no longer uncool. I joined anything and everything and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  get institute holidays and have to still get our problem sets done), I ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And while CPW will probably indeed fill you with a sense of warmth and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of Building 7. And when you register for classes, you speak of taking 3.091, 8.01, 18.01, and 21W.784. Tell someone you're taking "Physics 1," and they

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  classes offered this fall...and realizing how much I wanted to take a bunch ... students pre-registered for the course, representing 9 different majors and spread more or less evenly across 2016s, 2017s, and 2018s. I'm coteaching

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are ... August, a committee of senior bloggers, recent bloggers, and a few staff ... applications, there much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019