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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world ... -107) and one women's restroom (3-101). But that's about to change. And in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... undergrads. They've expanded greatly since they started, with chapters in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  International Olympiad in Informatics. The International Olympiad in Informatics ... students. Like its counterparts in math (IMO), physics (IPhO), chemistry (ICh ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  varsity fencer). However, I’m probably best remembered as that girl in ... first (yeah course 16!), but being an AFROTC cadet comes in a close second in my life, because out of everything I do, it means the most to my

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... determine after analytical deliberation not to do something often academic in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  famous - so many, in fact, that all of their responses wouldn't fit in this ... and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury ... as they compete in PyeongChang! Luckily, because I was close (ish) to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was browsing today’s New York Times and saw an article called “Women in Science ... science and engineering classes in larger and larger numbers, even at top

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... small children kicking a soccer ball or sitting in a circle. While in ... brought water buffalo and smoldering fire pits. This field is in Mai Chau

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  , eight hours in an office sort of fly by if you're enjoying what you ... trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... time in the Operations and Technology buildings. The TOB (technology

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in ... Fest sold more tickets than any in recent memory.  And by "recent memory," I ... !  Probably to the chagrin of the cops in charge of security.  But they didn

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the ... there at Cambridge in my junior year than during my time here at MIT. The ... successfully, i.e. earning first-degree class marks on the exams. In particular

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  constructing this "structure" in his front yard. I know that many of you are ... in the neighborhood, I can speak with some certainty that he is not Noah and said construction in not an ark. Good Luck! P.S. A prize will

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing ... nth annual concert in Bad Taste. Basically, they make fun of everything ... can find a list of the topics that they made fun of (all in jest, of

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  and I had in New York last weekend, but I'm not going to write it until ... voting against Rick Santorum on a beautiful sunny Wednesday last week in ... in their US voting district reads this entry and then doesn't vote

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission: Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they say in the newspaper business: we have put the Early Action ... , you may be one of the 12%. For those not in the 12% - do not despair

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  answer all of the questions you've left in the comments.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... their birthday, and we all sing scream "Happy Birthday" very loudly in the lounge. We've even had pizza cake. 7. Whiteboard in 1E Walcott Lounge

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018