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• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  WIth CPW 2012 just a few days away, the whole school is getting ready ... organized by MIT undergrads. Here's the official low-down! The MIT Society ... Dash is an event specifically designed for high school students and is held

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  created specifically by MIT students and faculty. How cool is this? But even more impressive to me about MIT”s commitment to art is that there ... itself is a Frank Gehry work of art. And tonight the MIT List Center will

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman at MIT who just declared Course 15: Management. I’m considering also ... another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks ... program or the college you want to enter. MIT is no piece of cake, so just ... were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  is a good thing, because while MIT is a very wonderful place, if you ... (who is suddenly not so little -- he can drive! weird). Soon my family ... fireplace. My actual purpose today is to talk a little bit about selecting a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  -year academic experience at MIT. The initiative, which is ongoing, has been considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... the GIRs. It's one of the ways I learned that MIT was designed for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  Apologies for the video length/quality this week. MIT has me sufficiently hosed this weekend, following an already-stressful week. Such is life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal team actually removing the Apollo Lunar Lander from the great dome. This gives a great look into a machine room right inside, a trench around the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  of myself at the foot of my goddess. Athena is also the name of MIT ... of the things I love most about MIT is the history that surrounds our ... Late on Sunday evening, just before the first day of MIT's finals

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Has Been Found! Mystery Hunt 2007 is quasi-over.

  

  "At 2:14am on Sunday January 14th Dr. Awkward managed to defeat the devil and regain their immortal soul (in coin form)." This means Mystery Hunt is quasi-over. At 5:30 PM today, there will be a wrap up session

  • by Bryan
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  community and beyond. All the sororities are part of MIT Panhel, which is our ... , you know (just kidding!)? Just like everything else at MIT, sororities ... clarify exactly what a sorority is. According to the Panhel website

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to ... multidisciplinary approach. The Center's goal is to improve the ability to accurately ... of Global Change, and the MIT Energy Initiative.
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join a fraternity/sorority?

  MIT community. The purpose of the FSILG Office is to enhance the out-of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that ... MIT's Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate ... arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  There’s no formula for gaining transfer admission to MIT. The transfer admissions process is highly competitive, even more so than the first-year admissions process. There’s no minimum required GPA; however
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  is drew houston '05 (founder of dropbox and the 'mit friend' from the ... of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT. "Why are you taking a year off?" I ask. Well, he tells me, he, an MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  pictures from last year, but whatevs. I still dig 'em.) 1. This is Flat Ryan ... their kids, but his Nobel is kind of off in the corner of his office. He ... Pumpkin Patch. We have a pretty sweet glass lab at MIT, and every year they

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  , CJ, is the MIT Picture Scavenger Hunt? CJ: The MIT Picture Scavenger Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... reading them eventually.” Anyway, Alan, what is the MIT Picture Scavenger

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  , this goal is a manifestation of the MIT Mission, and the admissions ... In September 2021, when I posted about the new Welcome Center that is ... more like MIT. The last item on that list was: ~something else~: that we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007