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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  importuned for a word, which was characteristic, as usual. I was urged to speak ... be drawn for the present so as to place them with the seceders. Still ... for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  able to update my blog this summer! I feel so guilty for my prolonged ... of water, basically waiting for some major accident to happen. I don ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in international math & science olympiads. Competitions are held for such ... competing countries participated. Contestants attempt to solve 6 math problems

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

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... to the holiday season, and (2) we had a major blizzard the day we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a prime fireworks watching location. 2. The Sailing Pavilion. For members of ... only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the ...  choosing between jobs to estimate their probability of making each choice. Their ... choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  with fire spinning Painted for a final project with a friend Ice skated outdoors Went to [annotation note='during IAP with Concourse, a first-year learning community, to study Greek philosophy. growing up, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get to pass 6.002 for one. But you also get music. Sweet music. I was ... -sounding piano ballad, but the distortion was too great for me to figure out which ... get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  wanted to donate blood for a demonstration. I thought he was joking and ... for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1 ... giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  of the extent to which people here are open to learning for the sake of ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... commented, “Oh, MIT. My siblings went there,” and proceeded to talk to us

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  physically significant counter-example to this premise. Let's start from the ... Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute ... entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all ... 's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... headed over to the State Room. Luckily, groups of people were still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  's lounge trying to hold onto the comfort that I have grasped to ... teachers, excellent students, and a beautiful school, I have been smiling for ... day here, I was more nervous than a CEO about to tell his staff that he

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  picture with Harry! Thanks to Will R. '16 for taking this picture! Here is ... Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the beautiful State Room in Boston to receive their glorious Brass Rats! Michael

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the ... any class. But on the other hand, most professors still expect us to put ... the MIT populace as a whole, but I have some amount of work to do - or

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... . already. So without further ado, my top 10 excuses for neglecting my blog-ly duties: 10. I was doing physics:  During IAP you’re only allowed to take

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade ... thy salad (/exaggeration). Every morning for the past two weeks, I ... decency to ring their bells at least 3 meters before nicking off your left

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  for a reason to admit you. In other words, we don't connect with pieces ... collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my ... 've seen a truly mind-blowing hack. Someone needs to do something about that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  , gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours, during which time I read avidly for 18.02 (Multivariable Calculus) and STS ... new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009