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• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  forward to watching "The Incredibles" tonight and not thinking about Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... 've been lucky enough to work so far with Stu, Quinton, Salvador (the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the ... currently on our campus who felt the same way before their dream became a reality. The mission of the MIT Institute Community & Equity Office
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the best on the planet. Mathematics provides a language and tools for understanding the physical world around us and the abstract world within us. MIT
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... cuts in, and it shows the result you'll get when you unfold it. It ... this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  morning! The sun is coming up over Denver, CO, and it is a beautiful day out here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark Materials books. The themes, concepts, and narratives from the books have shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  If you haven’t been following the results of the most recent LEGO ... the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... thank her. She has been busy interviewing around the U.S. and even in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units. The average MIT student takes four classes per semester, so usually ... , Danny B.D. (we read the MIT blogs when procrastinating too), who captures

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... ..” and the hopefully less familiar D - “Minimally acceptable..” F ... - “Absent. This grade indicates that the student was progressing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... the Class of 1954. Tech Reunions are exactly what they sound like—MIT alumni gathering on campus to see old friends, reminisce about the good old

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a ... mercifully scarce in a job that regularly involves glorifying the trivialities

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  Hey all, just another entry about the EA Telethon madness. I ended up ... - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure if we were lured by the idea of talking to prospective students or the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an ... -like thing. Now, however, the two are used somewhat interchangeably, but most ... digress.) As you're walking from the main buildings over to the east side

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really ... , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons was released. The ... (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out ... the wall. As somebody said during Amazing Race 6, the Berlin Wall is ... graffiti. The incongruity between what the city currently looks like and what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Govern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world. There are two parts to this entry. Part the First: Our Students So here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan ... the Mystery Hunt Website, you can check out all of the puzzles

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005