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  The Periodic Table of MIT It's Interactive! (desktop only)

  

  The Periodic Table of MIT Close

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the world =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I must say though, Cambridge actually has pretty places to take pictures of ... too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  Textile industry and trade Determinants of the price of vodka Access to the morning-after pill and unsafe sex December 1: Impact of Vioxx's downfall on ... growth Demand for Coke vs. Pepsi Determinants of house prices in Newton

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Moment of Truth

  

  Decisions are in the mail and ready to be viewed online. I'm really excited myself, and I've known my decision for a year and a half. =) Best of luck to everyone!

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New ... spent most of the ride falling victim to a nasty bout of motion sickness (fortunately, no picture of this), but Rose caught a fish. Somehow, we ended up

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  himself an actual MIT class. As usual, Prof. Sadoway (former Chair of the ... music for the five minutes before the official start of class at 11:05am. Today's music was "Seasons of Love" from RENT, one of my all-time favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  When I was in high school one of the most influential non ... "). This landmark book provides profiles of the inner work life of hundreds of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  ,000! I don't like physics. A lot of people seem to think I do. I'd like to ... sorts of majors here at MIT to choose from that have nothing to do with ... cognitive sciences, I could do chemistry or biology, or any number of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  Last week was one of those weeks where I had either a test or something due every day of the week. Monday: 18.310 test corrections were due. 18.310 is Principles of Applied Mathematics, the discrete version (18

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  "Murals of Senior Haus" exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the second floor of the student center. This exhibit was put together by former residents and friends of the Haus (Paula C. '12, Tara E.'14, Ru M

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ides of March Among other things, I now have the power to kill Macbeth.

  

  of the woman from whose womb I was untimely ripped a mere twenty years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have ... proper grammar standardized english). It's the time of year (midterms ... on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of the activity in my neck of the woods. But first, a pic of my hallmate ... , confounding stereotypes not only of MIT women but of Course 6 majors. Anyway

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... School of the Museum of Fine Arts) appealed to me when I applied here, and ... “The Poetics of Place” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a last

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... and students stood up in front of us weary workday parents, who were ... program changed their life. Nobody had to convince me. I spent most of the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities ... home countries of rock bands the Scorpions ("Rock You Like a Hurricane

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

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Over the last year, I've had the pleasure of being the Undergraduate Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with ... well, do I? All of us at the debate. From left to right: Dwight, Chris

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006