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• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why ... .  But sooner or later, everyone hits a wall. One of the hardest things I ... ’s no longer possible to wing it. The volume of complex information and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at ... Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of ... Oppenheimer said "I am become death, the destroyer Of worlds", He was not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Today marks the beginning of the glorious month known as IAP, which ... , MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  .)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one ... Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a ... offices, or explain the things that I learned as a result of trauma, but I

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  , Hassan (who is from the Ivory Coast) was always highly active in the Muslim ... roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first ... ideas and research. Hassan embodies the spirit of risk-taking and acting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... workshop sponsored by MISTI Japan and learned the intricacies of flowers and ... letterpress. This was the first time I'd tried anything of this sort, and I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... , it’s not exactly under-used. Back in April, one of the paper towel

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  three of us took in the first week of IAP. Joe, who is the Chairman of ... semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of ... -night adventure in the MIT tunnels in which he surprisingly relied on a lot of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  , and many of my friends played instruments in the orchestra and in various ensembles, as I imagine many of you will. Some of the best musical moments, however, were those found in the less formal, impromptu picking-up-of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... the competition organizers have given them a large box full of motors ... use a tachometer to measure the motor rotational speed as a function of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  night they showed the final game of the three-game set between the ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... + Nephew Chair of Research at the American Sports Medicine Institute, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... principles to understand the structure and reactivity of organic molecules. Emphasis on substitution and elimination reactions and chemistry of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... Regular Action, 33,796 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2026. This ... being well above the pre-pandemic baseline of about 20,000 applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  myself blink out and in of existence as I crossed the threshold of the office each morning and evening. The meat of each day was some combination of staring at Jira, VS Code, C++ docs, and the free snack selection in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished exams underneath the melting clocks), there resides a species of creative

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... Minor, making special note of the soprano's oblique motion against the bass and the correct preparation and downward resolution of the sevenths

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... behalf of the society. During these sessions we had discussions with ... demonstration of the Air Force Drill Team, Hooahh! The Air Force Association

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008