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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets, essays, and tests so commonly found throughout the dread halls of the ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  , the author of the class textbook!!) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week ... externalities (which "arise whenever the actions of one party make another party ... receives the benefits of doing so") like acid rain, global warming, smoking

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... doors. Here is the first glimpse you get of the Lego Learning Lab: And ... thing that's cut off to the left of the photo- that's a phone booth. For

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social sciences. At MIT, we consider the humanities, arts, and social sciences ... disciplinary areas and encourages the development of sensibilities and skills
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  , faculty, new and returning students are all excited by the start of the new academic school year and the possibility of a New England World Series ... process, coming soon... Something New... The Class of 2011 has descended

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two ... ELL, with most of the work happening in our weekly GEL 2 meetings on ... adjustments, but the end of the semester features a student-planned ELL that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website ... ), I've worked at the Computing Help Desk, which is part of Information ... bureaucracy.) So what does all that mean? Well, IS&T runs all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very ... asking if they can search us. Confused, I said yes as one of the workers ... a line of security blocking off the backroom, and we officially

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  academically and personally. You are the best of the best. I wish we had enough room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a ... Well, you heard it here first. The letters are in the mail. For the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  can hear the pings of bullets landing in the street. As long as the electricity is flowing and the guns are shooting, I'll be awake in the basement and away from windows ready to answer your questions with the new and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  With almost no effort, the three of us were able to venture out into the ... all necessary transfers and the track numbers of all the trains, so ... our way to three separate landmarks within the space of two hours. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... engineering experience.   The effort spans the early phases of ... management, consensus building, and the value of communication.  The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters ... ). One of the reporters, Andrei, told me (in Russian), &ldquo ... out of touch with American life that I didn’t even remember the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... the Eastern edge of the campus) hosts a legendary Loading Dock Sale ... ! Students, educators, and other segments of the MIT community crowded room

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  of the energy challenge: Adding to the pressure for multiple approaches ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas ... MIT, from the University of Michigan to the University of Texas to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I ... of the colors changed: blue was now yellow, red was now cyan. This wasn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  unsurprisingly, more than half of the competitors, and all but one of the medals, have come from the "pirate sports" of rowing, sailing, fencing and rifle ... I sports; we are the birthplace of intercollegiate sailing; and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  opinion, some of the best blogs that have ever been written for ... a spectacular job at telling the many different stories of MIT as ... featured on the front page the New York Times, or that dozens (hundreds?) of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu ... the circle of life producing an incredibly nerdy musical at math camp

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has ... students behind "Howe & Ser." For the memories, I've below tallied some of ... : Apparently CalTech flew out a crew of 20 to retrieve the cannon, and took it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006