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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  Architecture was one of the four original departments at MIT, and it ... discipline, the department has long contributed to learning in the arts and ... : the Department of Urban Studies and Planning; the Media Lab and its
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and ... hours a day, 7 days a week all year long. We provide these vital services ... need it. Blue light emergency phones are everywhere. MIT also has a
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  evensong. I expect most people are unfamiliar with this tradition, so it ... , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a ... be prayers every evening, and the choir gives it voice (hence, evensong

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  your application. Unlike many other schools, MIT does not send "likely
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  presentations on our updates at 10 am the next day. It was like a two-week-long ... completed.  I’ve been putting off writing. It feels like once I’ve put pen to ... year has shown me anything, it is that I have changed. The idea of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT consider legacy?

  MIT doesn’t consider legacy or alumni relations in our admissions process. If you’d like to read more about this policy, check out the blog Just to Be Clear: We Don’t Do…
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  be kind to yourself. It’s still something I’m learning how to do with ... supermarket and it is absolutely DIVINE with honey"]tea[/annotation] to ... honey[/caption] Here’s my deferral story. It's pretty angsty. I was an

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  this week and oddly liked it 4. long overdue blog (since freshman year ... . It's good to see all of you :) So what's up. It's senior year. This is ... be a froshie and going to REX events (you have no idea how easily this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  it I try not to walk around New Haven with an expensive camera slinging from my shoulders. I left it in my dorm room while I was away. I figured ... 'm in the area. It turns out that using a new camera, for me, was a little

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  vacation I've had in as long as I can remember - it went way too fast. After ... . What an amazing state you have! (And I honestly didn't mind how hard it ... year after college, I somehow never made it down to Stanford during that

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  and as long as it's not something really popular like Pistol or Yoga ... nice days, "Hi Sam!" and "Hi Ian!" But nothing else. No "How's it going ... tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work ... article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to ... career path has lost its appeal for some students. Says junior Nicholas

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  her email (I've been taking a godawful long time to respond to emails ... interviewed. It's not true that only the EECS department allows MIT students to ... really don't like "inbreeding", but others are very enthusiastic about it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... studies class about “Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys.” and it’s AWESOME.  How the class works is we read a book by some salty New-England sea dog

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  collected periodically and we will be evaluated on how well we have used it ... graded first paper: Experiments in X-Ray Physics. It was way too long. It ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught ... -like ability to leap through puddles while performing his hit song, "It's Raining

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  . Janice: I know it's been months since we've last talked, but now that you've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how you're doing. CJ: It's been great! I like the company so far. Janice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  comprehensive view of everything in my room, but it's cool to see how some things ... blogger as a sophomore has its perks. These freshman-year thoughts just sat ... a snazzy little #tbt series. It's always strange to look back upon

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... halfway through term, and it feels like I just got here a week or two ago. Time flies here like I'd never fathomed -- before you know it, the day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application So long, extraneous passages of florid prose.

  

  Brevity is wise. …but I’m not the one being affected here. What are your thoughts?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2009