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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  home, as strange as it sounds, is MIT. I didn't expect that to happen ... be any other way. I think this is part of the reason MIT gets so ... complain a lot about how ridiculously challenging MIT is, about how hosed we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT ... class of 2019. So I thought, what better way to end my time at MIT than ... future students of the Institute. If there is anything you would like to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  of the MIT community who have started companies or created products ... have been screened carefully by yours truly. :-) My first interviewee is Michael Epstein, who graduated from MIT with a Masters in Comparative Media

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... Rat is quintessentially MIT, and I wouldn’t have it any other way ... Premiere, however, is one of those events that brings out the inner prefrosh

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in ... .) For the record, the current weather is gorgeous. This year, it's all a ... engineers who have graduated from MIT, if EC had been notified about this more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  queen you are at MIT is a pale shadow of the drama queen you were in high ... thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went ... MIT -- the social life, the workload, extracurriculars, living groups

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  )High school: Benjamin N. Cardozo HSCollege: MIT '86, mechanical engineeringFavorite thing about MIT: The people. That students and staff are engaged in so many things, have many talents, and are focused on what is really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  experience whatsoever with anything at all. MakeMIT is a hardware hackathon on ... allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics ... is cherished here at MIT, it doesn’t fully define MIT. There are so

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting ... last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  afraid I had lost sight of that big picture. What is MIT supposed to look ... say MIT is a journey, but this year felt more like a voyage ... they’re at.” As MIT is swiftly moving to address the BSU recommendations

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  Mari and Prof. Patrick Henry Winston. Winston is what we at MIT call a "lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  the Boston side, across the Charles from MIT. This is where we spent our ... . Across from Boston is our beloved MIT and its pincer aliens ... that looks like this: Here’s Boston from the Harvard Bridge, MIT’s

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the first day of classes ever for the MIT Class of 2014. The past couple of ... is addressed by the faculty and MIT President Susan Hockfield. Would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... School of Public Health admissions officer at MIT (this one is me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  winning the Nobel Prize is that his thesis advisor when he was an MIT ... As Chris blogged last week, MIT Economics professor Peter Diamond PhD '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  . And I do have a habit of doing this anyway - I feel like reflection is a ... at MIT. ----- Discovery. Discovery for me came in many forms - I ... . Discovery is finding out that I needed to draft a study plan for my courses at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  lab is in the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Thinking back ... her PhD through MIT’s Operations Research Center and is now working at ... Talent Search public session and gave me an MIT frisbee. A year later, he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  the best. unfortunately it is not at mit. Harvard is old and ... a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am class [caption id="" align="alignright" width="1953"] this photo is false

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a ... attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took advantage of a new opportunity that allows MIT students to visit the Isabella

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and learn more about their roles as Admissions Interns? If the answer is yes

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012