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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  's a great place to study. The reading room in the library is the inside ... wasn't joking. It is dead silent in there. If you accidentally make a ... in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How awesome is MIT Physics?

  The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics. Fourteen of their alumni and eight of their faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my ... have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy/musical pun name only rivaled by the MIT Logarhythms). [This is my second live

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... Mid-Atlantic, and the Carolinas here) We started in Miami with a nicely ... my years in admissions. One young woman asked a question about how our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do ... somewhere that is fast-paced and making important strides in a high ... 't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  there is a change in your citizen status during the application process ... citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered a U.S. citizen if you currently hold a United States permanent
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  Beginning a week from Saturday, MIT will be going on the road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Texas and Arizona. Details can be found here: brownmityale.org These meetings will be a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U-Haul truck headed towards a sketchy storage facility somewhere in the middle of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  "You're joining a fraternity? What?!?!?!?" I think this is what a ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... Interfraternity Council president if I was interested in joining a fraternity, I

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... for 20 minutes and sit down for six hours" kind of deal. in terms of a ... childhood anime, Inuyasha, is currently airing. when i heard about it back in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  she is working in a cognitive science lab. She came to MIT to do ... Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... 'll admit the line is a bit fuzzy in some cases. Consider, for example, 12 ... In my mind, [annotation note="Many, but by no means all. Giving a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  possible (boo) For the first time, get excited that security is taking a ... , though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move ... [annotation note="I realize this is so ick but after I put it I have to commit

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... sink in a pint glass of Guinness and rise in an anti-pint glass. It ... , incomprehensibly massive on a personal scale yet in turn cosmologically insignificant

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  have been very involved in Medlinks here on campus. Medlinks is a student ... excited. Science fiction is my favorite genre, and I would love to take a ... .012, which is a 15-unit two-part class consisting of a structure of materials

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  story is... look for a majorly awesome update Tuesday night or thereabouts ... -dollar fall retreat at a cabin in New Hampshire with the dorm, both of which ... test that I keep in a special place that I take out and read through and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I ... sent me some posters in the mail recently. One is of Cassiopeia, a ... the Whirlpool Galaxy, and a third one is of the sky when viewed in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  . Especially after taking D-Lab development (which is a class in course 11) and ... Course 11 is a small major with a lot of breadth. It is cross ... . Sophomore spring, after taking a couple classes in the urban studies and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first ... , '12, is a Course 1 major from Colorado who lives offcampus in an ... performed her valedictory speech with her friend and salutatorian Sameer in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  , or later in life, just know that it is a process, and it takes time ... their origins as a class, here is what I told them:  Then, that August ... challenges of your life so far, and a sense of numb, "is that it?" malaise that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019