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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. During your first semester, most of your program will involve the GIRs, which will lay the ... all of our students are broadly educated in the physical, natural and
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  even sometimes sad being on the other side of CPW. I knew that it would ... me miss my own CPW so much, but so grateful of the opportunities and ... Peterson's picture of the green building lit up in remembrance of those who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on ... a while since the Hack Gallery was updated, and only a couple of these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  everyone from the back of their heads, but the girl at the right is Ruth '08, a resident of 4th East and a Senator from East Campus, and I think the ... Bryan '07 (Chair of the Committee on Housing and Orientation). Here we

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual ... desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the early returns, the backbone of society: the REX volunteers.    The

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  (title taken from The Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool) I ... this out and move on. Last IAP I spent almost all of the month working on ... stresful. I didn't get much sleep during the last week of IAP (or during the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  the next few months with 57 units of courses: On February 6th, the ... of the class in general of proving all the results although my ... third of the course or so centers around mechanics, which I will admit is

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  student center enjoying a matinee of the Musical Theatre Guild's production of Star Wars Trilogy: Musical Edition. Of course, since the production ... kissed my sister" joke, the random operatic soprano belting "Phantom of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  the Red Chamber, and all sorts of other random content to fill the time ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] no, the size of this map still doesn't make sense ... talks about some of the mixed feelings he has about this question, and it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT ... three). The cast and crew (of which many of us are both) are now almost ... incredibly proud of what we've created. Here's a short behind-the-scenes look

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  working on over the past week. Some of these science experiments include a ... . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... . But it is all in the name of science. All events taking place over the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... ) The chef at ZBT is wonderful, and I enjoy many of her creations -- flan ... of this sunk cost. I held the square very loosely and walked by the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  mine more exhausted than when I embarked. So I've spent most of the day ... editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes the introduction to E.L. Doctorow's novel City of God. I quote it for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the Ivy ... -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the purposes of this conference, as the Ivies + Stanford + MIT. The Ivy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of ... a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to answer all of the questions you've left in the comments.

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

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to ... certainly cannot substitute for the real experience of being on MIT's campus ... Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  It's an incredibly exciting time of year, as the Class of 2023 is ... with our newly enrolled class through a number of events over the next ... of Multicultural Programs, LBGTQ@MIT, and the Office of the First Year

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012