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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  Forbes article, MIT was listed as one of the most attended universities of ... , and University of Pennsylvania. Obviously, awards are subjective, and ... On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  weights of the top three airplanes at the end of today: University of ... Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  are ones that offer a lot of fulfillment. Things are a bit hypocritical ... Specificity — generally, the higher degree of quantitative precision with which ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... search for is information. Any information. It will tell you the GDP of any ... the history of that country's GDP. It can tell you about scales in music

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  -seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri is no stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  keep intruding upon my blogging time. A big part of my next entry will ... 've likely seen on Matt's blog, we went to the waitlist today and offered ... of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... MIT, and we have offered early admission to 656. These students hail ... . Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already informed 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to represent the university; schools are ranked according to the sum of the ranks ... The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition were recently released

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... : humanitarian crisis, deeply divisive politics and high-profile incidents of terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the ... We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity. There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert ... here: the gila monster, its mottled orange and black skin warning of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• 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 ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  Taekwondo, I once went to a tournament at the University of Vermont, which is ... kind of crazy to me  Earn your degree ✅ Somehow did this one… ... this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  University of California, Santa Barbara. Hammond is a professor of chemical ... . Before assuming the presidency of MIT, she was Provost at Yale University ... them virtually via the webcast of President Obama's speech. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... - offered these options: 1. Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Stevie Wonder 2. Can ... Green The Muses - a female a cappella group - offered these options: 1. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005