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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of ... the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction of cod. "Our data highlight the societal consequences of an ongoing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  to: S. Res. 195 Whereas when the Massachusetts Institute of ... ; Whereas the commitment of MIT to innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit ... have significantly contributed to the fields of computing, molecular

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  gift: an origami Evie. The most amazing thing about the piece is just how much it really looks like Evie. Check it out! The origami Evie was created by Jason '09, one of MIT's terrific origami artists. Count

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory?

  The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT focuses the talents of a diverse array of brain scientists on a single mission: unraveling the mechanisms that drive the quintessentially human capacity to
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on ... were abuzz on Killian Court early on the morning of Commencement ... year, the show was hosted by Institute Archivist Tom Rosko and Dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  the vast majority of applicants, most of whom were qualified to be here. To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of the best. Don't let this stop you from doing all of the great things in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ourselves with is the existential crisis of some whiteness. But when something

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  . Instead of having an actual intro, I'll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here ... impression was, "Wow, there are a lot of stairs." I live on the 4th floor of ... . Macgregor isn't the hallway-style type of college dorm. Each group of 6

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... Premiere, however, is one of those events that brings out the inner prefrosh in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  The fourth Thursday of November and the few days before and after are ... just watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, another staple of the ... in the 20s because a large number of Macy's employees were new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  seltzer and 2 flavors of kombucha. Wholesome. 8.02 (“Eight-oh-two”): the ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the ... like the rest of us. Gun control: the subject of a blog post I really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... in the online application (like photos of inventions/creations, extra

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput ... that shuttle the tray through a battery of tests (pictures below!) Out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  many, this is the end of an era that started with the release of the ... celebrated the series a number of times in the way we celebrate: with hacks ... Deathly Hallows, was being delivered to the doorsteps of muggles, the Dark

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at ... : Pisa is small like Boston but has the similar feeling of a college town. The ... , and the food is delicious!   Alan XU Class of 2013 MIT

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you enjoy and I hope you learn something new. One of the strangest, most ... bout of the haphazard enthusiasm characteristic of that age, I dumped the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming.. Snively and I are working on something awesome.

  

  Snively and I are working on something awesome. Look out for the release around the end of April:

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  home countries of rock bands the Scorpions ("Rock You Like a Hurricane ... 'm supposed to be one of the young, hip people in the office, but one major way ... I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... on the right side of the road after a few blocks. There are also quite ... of the dorms don't have air conditioning kind of freaks me out. are the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006