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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snowpeople & a hammershark more post-blizzard sights around campus --

  

  : -- <3! (full credit to whoever built these!) -- P.S. I'm currently scrambling to finish the Sketchbook Project (introduced in this post), and this ... some quick shots of all the snowpeople-and-other-things in sight. They

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena Cluster to: Still going. I just had a DATA breakthrough. I want to hug someone. 3:57 AM In Bed. Will wake up at 8 am and read it over one more

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 1 The first winning entry in the photo contest. What a view!

  

  The Orientation photo contest is off to a great start. The first photo comes to us from freshman Arya '10, an international student from Iran. This photo was taken from Arya's 15th floor room in the dormitory

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  Pending recovery from my illness, in a few hours, I will board a bus to head here to watch this movie in IMAX. I'm a "little" excited. Diana boarding the "Knight Bus" (ie the Big Yellow Bus) with her ticket

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  , started the online learning phenomenon in 1993 when he started tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in math over the internet. By the end of 2006, more ... fund analyst to start Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  All applicants are requested to fill out the application with their current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you ... green cards are considered to have non-U.S. citizen/non-U.S. permanent
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the annual 2.007 Robot Competiton where 32 finalists from 153 entrees compete in various ... was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you ... be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There is no online application for MIT transfer. To apply, you should print

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon ... 't have tons of time to do fun stuff. I was digging around on my external hard drive today (which has saved my life more than once, invest in one

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American Mathematical Society Journal, with a link to the article below). Seriously, she ... Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!" with 42,000 members, everybody loves a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  Growing up in the Midwest, my "beach" experiences consisted of the sands of Lake Michigan or small lakes in Wisconsin and Michigan. Living (or going to college) in the Boston area is a real luxury because the

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... 'll be at ISEF 2007 in Albuquerque, I hope to see you there! ... in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  are many reasons, reasons too complex to discuss in a PhD dissertation ... an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of ... traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... never spoke about before coming to live in Senior Haus. I couldn ... more likely to deal with mental issues and struggle in school. It is a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in ... . In three weeks, I will need to declare a (yet nonexistent) major. I ... students to know how I felt, how marvelously physics displays itself in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  realm of cruftiness. So, in the name of going out strong, I'd like to put ... them to anybody interested in taking them. They weren't quite S ... forced to take to graduate. And really, in the end, I only had TWO D

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  day in lab. So you may be surprised to hear that 2 MIT students, Alia ... got to spend a fabulous weekend in Manhattan; they got us rooms in a ... article! We’ll be going back to New York in the beginning of June for more

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  'll meet and get to know our future host, Cynthia F. '18, as well as learn a ... around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... guestblogger. Kellen works with MIT students to run the @MITStudents accounts on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead stuff I listen to when I code

  

  [caption id="attachment_88319" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (not by me)[/caption] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gPMHAyVIzQRXAkjHDbxty?si=d3d2d64a8f1d48bb Explicit lyrics. Don't play this in front of your

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 14, 2023