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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  at MIT?" This is a question that often times arises surrounding the ... comfort people when they're in a new place like MIT is having people that ... we all really fit in here at MIT. I really think the bottom line is

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  MIT crew is pretty popular, but there are many varsity sports where the ... about freshman admissions etc. Please keep in mind that MIT is a very ... . As far as whether or not you should apply, if you think MIT is a

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  it. -Painting my new room an awesome purple, because painting is ... :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at ... , I had only regretted not spending more time doing work. That is, until

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  is MIT’s autonomous robotics team! Self-driving robots are becoming a ... Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall ... ] Amber: So Arcturus is a pretty new club, yeah? Tell us about its formation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  concluding that MIT is clearly better. Anyways, September 2nd, the date of the ... ‘18. Harvard is a little over a mile away from MIT, which translates ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  isn't exactly something MIT is world-renowned for. Yet. But there's a ... impossible not to notice the tremendous amount of resources that MIT is pouring ... in between, MIT is pushing international development forward on pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  , MIT is awesome at pistol, and the range is on campus, why not join? I ... It's 11:42 am Eastern time and I'm packing my bags. ¿Porque? The MIT pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a ... the night before your exam [it's not high school anymore ;)]. MIT is ... classes (MIT is famous for its political science (Course 17) department as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  Broadway and pop hits." "First Lady is a senior linguistics major at MIT ... (chemistry)." "First Witch is a junior at MIT studying aerospace engineering ... ." "Spirit...has a BS in electrical engineering from MIT and is completing an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  , talking about everything and learning about everything.   MIT is a ... Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is ... date a few weeks into MIT is difficult. this means that your social ... The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  about the MIT startup community. One of the projects I'm co-leading is ... working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with ... started in 1989 as the MIT 10K Competition by Richard Durling

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a ... otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT. We believe a requirement is ... idiomatically."]accurately predict student academic success at MIT[/annotation] is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to ... communities.  While the initiative is new, the concern for these students is not.  The partnership, initiated with significant philanthropic support, is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  .F.B. Riemann (1826 - 1866) observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very ... first 1,500,000,000 solutions. A proof that it is true for every ... you 11415 years to hit a million dollars. Unfortunately, this is not a

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  hall. Here is the menu they set for themselves: Plate 1: Spaghetti ... extended "family" here at MIT. I've blogged before about the "free-food" list, the magical mailing list whereupon random people at MIT will send

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT ... the Visiting Committee. The Visiting Committee is made up of members of the MIT Corp., faculty from other schools and donors/sponsors to both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  Isaacson; and MIT Admissions bloggers like Melis '08. This year, MIT senior Jennifer Lai '11 has won the Rhodes Scholarship. This brings MIT's count to ... , Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... 'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual ... Building. The Dot is one of the few grassy areas on MIT's rather urban campus

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008