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campus</p> <p>12 museums and galleries on campus</p> <p>>50% incoming first-year students with training in the arts</p> <p>>50% undergraduates enroll in arts courses each year</p> <div class="promo-icon" style="background-image: url(https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MIT-Facts_icons_campus_black.svg);"></div> </div> <div class="promo-entry single" style="background-color:#0459ad;color:#fff;"> <div class="promo-link"><a aria-hidden="true" aria-label="promo-button" href="https://facts.mit.edu/origins/" target="_self"></a></div> <h2><a style="color:#fff;" href="https://facts.mit.edu/origins/" target="_self">Origins</a></h2> <p>1861: Founded in Boston</p> <p>1916: Moved to Cambridge</p> <div class="promo-icon" style="background-image: url(https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MIT-Facts_icons_history_white.svg);"></div> </div> </div> <div class="reveal surprise" id="surprise" data-reveal> <div class="grid-container hpslider-wrap"> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>Every fall, an unusually colorful and delicate scene unfolds on Kresge Lawn: the <a href="https://mitglasslab.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Glass Pumpkin Patch</a>—an annual fundraiser for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayP_04cQseQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">W. David Kingery Ceramics and Glass Lab</a>, part of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Founded in 1986, the <strong>MIT Glass Lab</strong> teaches community members the art of glassblowing. Students and instructors create a garden of pumpkins and squashes in every size and shade, as well as thousands of other works of art each year.</p> <img width="960" height="538" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GlassLab-9.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Photo of dozens of glass pumpkins, front and center is a purple/blue/multi-colored pumpkin" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GlassLab-9.jpg 960w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GlassLab-9-300x168.jpg 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GlassLab-9-768x430.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><div class="featured-caption">Photo by Kimberly Mancino.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p><a href="https://studentlife.mit.edu/housing/undergraduate-housing/residence-halls">Random Hall’s</a> longest continuous resident was…The Milk. The Milk celebrated its 27th birthday on October 20, 2021, having been decomposing gently in the back of the refrigerator since 1994. The Milk even <a href="https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/happy-21st-birthday-to-the-random-hall-milk/">applied to MIT</a> but, sadly, its application curdled. When students returned from summer break, The Milk was declared <a href="https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/guest-post-the-random-hall-milk-gone-but-not-forgotten/">missing on August 20, 2022</a>. Although stubborn hope remains, it is most likely ill-advised.</p> <img width="700" height="525" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RandomHallMilkBirthday.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Photo of a container with a yellow cone party hat, surrounded by half a dozen containers of other varieties of milk, including almond, soy, coconut, and skyr" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RandomHallMilkBirthday.jpg 700w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RandomHallMilkBirthday-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><div class="featured-caption">The Milk (center), seen here celebrating its 21st birthday with friends. Photo by Yongquan Lu '16.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>Andy Warhol’s iconic <a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79809" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Campbell’s Soup Cans</em></a> can <a href="https://betterworld.mit.edu/condensed-history-soup/">trace its lineage back to MIT</a>.</p> <p>John Dorrance (Class of 1895) went on to get his doctorate, and applied his knowledge in several famous restaurants in Paris. The chemist later convinced his uncle—the general manager of Joseph Campbell & Co.—to hire him.</p> <p>Under the unusual terms of his employment (he paid for his own lab equipment and took only a nominal salary), Dorrance created a formula to remove water from soup, cutting the product’s shipping and retail costs and revolutionizing the company. Thus condensed soup was born!</p> <p>Within 14 years, his can-do attitude helped him become the company’s president.</p> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>The infamous <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2018/just-drop-it-mit-baker-house-piano-drop-0524">Baker House Piano Drop</a> got its start in 1972, following a debate about what to do with a broken piano. While the student handbook forbade throwing things out of windows, Charlie Bruno ’74 pointed out a loophole: The handbook said nothing about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JItJrqi6-I0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">throwing things off dormitory roofs</a>. After a little prep work, <a href="http://museum.mit.edu/150/53" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a tradition was born</a>.</p> <img width="893" height="893" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BakerPianoDropfromprint.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Scan of a black and white photo of students raising a piano about to drop over the edge of the building" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BakerPianoDropfromprint.png 893w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BakerPianoDropfromprint-300x300.png 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BakerPianoDropfromprint-150x150.png 150w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BakerPianoDropfromprint-768x768.png 768w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BakerPianoDropfromprint-125x125.png 125w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px" /><div class="featured-caption">Baker House residents initiate the tradition of piano dropping in 1972. Photo from the MIT Museum Collection.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>“Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers,” co-hosts of National Public Radio’s popular weekly show <em><a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510208/car-talk">Car Talk</a></em> were the <a href="https://news.mit.edu/1999/clickclackspeech">1999 Commencement speakers</a>. Why would MIT invite the owners of a local auto repair shop to address graduates and their families? Because Click and Clack are MIT graduates themselves!</p> <p>Cambridge brothers <a href="https://news.mit.edu/1999/clickclack">Tom (1958) and Ray Magliozzi (1972)</a> parlayed their education and infectious humor into a variety of successful ventures, including television and movie roles, and most famously, their Peabody Award–winning radio program, proving that an MIT degree can lead to the most surprising careers.</p> <img width="804" height="426" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/click-clack-mit-commencement.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Photo of Tom and Ray in front of a fake line chart held up by then MIT President Charles M. Vest" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/click-clack-mit-commencement.png 804w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/click-clack-mit-commencement-300x159.png 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/click-clack-mit-commencement-768x407.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px" /><div class="featured-caption">Tom Magliozzi '58, accompanied by his brother Ray Magliozzi '72 and then–MIT President Charles M. Vest, told 1999 graduates, "being unencumbered by the thought process” leads to greater happiness. Photo by Donna Coveney.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>In 1968, during a tumultuous period in US political and racial history, Black students at MIT formed the MIT Black Students’ Union (BSU). The BSU was created with two goals in mind: to support each other and to bring more Black students to the Institute. At that time, Black students made up less than 1% of each 1,000-member <a href="https://facts.mit.edu/enrollment-statistics/">undergraduate class</a>.</p> <img width="900" height="671" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HS_student_visitors_East_Coast_to_MIT_1972_0.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="scan of black and white photo with over half a dozen students both men and women, wearing coats in the foreground with the 77 Mass Ave MIT entrance in the background." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HS_student_visitors_East_Coast_to_MIT_1972_0.jpg 900w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HS_student_visitors_East_Coast_to_MIT_1972_0-300x224.jpg 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HS_student_visitors_East_Coast_to_MIT_1972_0-768x573.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" /><div class="featured-caption">New York-area high school students, pictured with MIT student tour guides, get a first-hand look at the Institute in 1972. Photo from the MIT Museum Collection.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>In April 2012, <a href="https://alum.mit.edu/slice/hacked-tetris-green-building" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MIT’s Green Building was transformed into a monumental Tetris video game canvas</a>. Appearing mysteriously one Friday evening, the windows lit up in a colorful display of the popular puzzle. Players used a console erected in the courtyard to move, rotate, and drop blocks. The 295-foot-tall building, with its gridded façade of windows, proved the ideal vehicle for the <a href="https://thetech.com/2012/05/01/tetris-v132-n22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tetris game hack</a>, an idea that took approximately four-and-a-half years to execute.</p> <img width="960" height="640" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/tetris-on-the-green-building.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Closeup photo of 5 floors of the Green Building with varying colors in each window representing tetris shapes" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/tetris-on-the-green-building.png 960w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/tetris-on-the-green-building-300x200.png 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/tetris-on-the-green-building-768x512.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><div class="featured-caption">Photo by Erik Nygren '96.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>The MIT Guild of Bellringers helps maintain and <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/07/01/old-north-church-july-4-bellringing-tradition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ring the eight bells of Boston’s historic Old North Church</a>. The bells were originally cast in 1744 and most recently restored in 1975. The Bellringers memorize complicated “change ringing” arrangements—a 17-century English style of pulling full-circle church bells in a repertoire of repeating patterns, which might seem more mathematical than musical (perhaps part of the appeal for our MIT crew)!</p> <img width="960" height="607" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WBUR-bellringers.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Photo of one woman and three men wearing masks pulling on ropes inside a brick structure with a ground window opened in the background" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WBUR-bellringers.png 960w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WBUR-bellringers-300x190.png 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WBUR-bellringers-768x486.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><div class="featured-caption">Bell ringers Katarina Dutton, Ricky Morse, John Bihn, and Todd Silver ring the bells at Boston's Old North Church. Photo courtesy of WBUR/Robin Lubbock.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>A tarnished bronze plaque outside Room 6-120 commemorates <a href="https://alum.mit.edu/slice/secrets-george-eastman-and-w-1">George Eastman</a>, founder of Eastman Kodak Company. In 1912, he made a $2.5 million donation to fund the construction of the main academic complex as MIT planned its move from Boston to Cambridge—on the condition that <strong>his identity be kept secret</strong>.</p> <p>“Mr. Smith,” as he had become known, was even the subject of national speculation. <em>The Tech </em>once reported that two New York millionaires met one night for dinner, each trying to get the other to admit that he was “Mr. Smith.” It wasn’t until 1920 that Eastman gave President Maclaurin permission to reveal his true identity.</p> <p>The shine on Eastman’s nose is produced by students who rub it for good luck.</p> <img width="960" height="485" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Eastman-10.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="George Eastman profile relief on the walls of MIT" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Eastman-10.png 960w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Eastman-10-300x152.png 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Eastman-10-768x388.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><div class="featured-caption">Photo by Kimberly Mancino.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>The quirkiness and humor of the MIT community shows itself in unusual ways.</p> <p>“<a href="https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/an-mit-underwear-expose/">It is tradition</a>, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dorm-wide social mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing.” This has led to the collection of some very colorful data.</p> <img width="855" height="528" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/underwear-color-by-gender.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Two hand drawn pie charts: Left pie chart illustrating the variety of underwear patterns worn by women and right pie chart illustrating underwear patterns worn by men" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/underwear-color-by-gender.jpeg 855w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/underwear-color-by-gender-300x185.jpeg 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/underwear-color-by-gender-768x474.jpeg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px" /><div class="featured-caption">Underwear Color by Guesstimated Binary Gender. Illustrated by Lydia Krasilnikova '14, MEng '16.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>One of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s (1928–2007) last public works can be found on the first-floor atrium of Building 6C. <a href="https://listart.mit.edu/public-art-map/bars-color-within-squares-mit" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Bars of Color Within Squares</em></a> is a vibrant 5,500-square-foot terrazzo floor installation consisting of 15 squares of colorful geometric patterns enclosed in bands of white and gray. The U-shaped floor is visible from many viewpoints, in particular from a series of walkways on the upper floors that connect three buildings within the Physics Department complex.</p> <img width="959" height="640" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BarsOfColor-4.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="photo of art installation" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BarsOfColor-4.jpg 959w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BarsOfColor-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BarsOfColor-4-768x513.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px" /><div class="featured-caption">Photo courtesy of the List Visual Arts Center.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>On May 6, 1970, rock band and countercultural icon, the <a href="https://museum.mit.edu/150/52">Grateful Dead played an impromptu set</a> in the rain on the steps of the Student Center, a day before their planned appearance at the DuPont Gymnasium. At the main event, the band played 43 songs. Tickets went for $3.00 in advance, $3.50 at the door.</p> <img width="770" height="510" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/grateful-dead-1.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Black and white photo of Grateful Dead perform in front of the MIT Stratton Student Center with crowds standing on all around them including on the steps." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/grateful-dead-1.png 770w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/grateful-dead-1-300x199.png 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/grateful-dead-1-768x509.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px" /><div class="featured-caption">Grateful Dead perform at MIT in 1970. Photo courtesy of the MIT Museum Collection.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>In 2006, as part of a hack against the California Institute of Technology, the fictitious moving company Howe & Ser absconded with Caltech’s Fleming House cannon. By the time it arrived at MIT, it sported a giant <a href="https://facts.mit.edu/fun-culture/">Brass Rat</a>. Manufactured in the <a href="https://edgerton.mit.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edgerton Center</a> student machine shop, the ring weighed 21 pounds and was precision-machined in three parts from solid aluminum, then gold-plated, and finally secured to the cannon with four set screws.</p> <p>Before the cannon was returned to Pasadena, the Brass Rat was removed and is now part of the <a href="https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MIT Museum</a>’s permanent collection.</p> <img width="600" height="402" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/caltech-cannon-hack.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Photo of a giant brass rat being worn like the cannon is a finger, with MIT buildings in the background" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/caltech-cannon-hack.jpeg 600w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/caltech-cannon-hack-300x201.jpeg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /><div class="featured-caption">CalTech's Fleming Cannon sporting a Brass Rat. Photo from mitcannon.com.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>MIT’s oldest and largest newspaper, <a href="https://thetech.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Tech</em></a>, was and is run by students. It launched on November 16, 1881, with a price of 15¢ per issue or $2 for an annual subscription. <em>The Tech</em> is still going strong today, with an all-volunteer staff of student writers, editors, photographers, and business managers. Financially independent from MIT, its content is free from the oversight of the Institute’s faculty or administration. Today’s editions can be read in print or online—a possibility its founders surely never imagined.</p> <img width="798" height="1129" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Tech-v1-n1-p1.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="scan of the first page of The Tech newspaper" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Tech-v1-n1-p1.png 798w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Tech-v1-n1-p1-212x300.png 212w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Tech-v1-n1-p1-724x1024.png 724w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Tech-v1-n1-p1-768x1087.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px" /><div class="featured-caption">First page of The Tech Volume 1 Issue 1. From The Tech archives.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>You can test the law of gravity under Newton’s apple tree at MIT. The President’s Garden, off the Infinite Corridor, is home to a direct descendant of the famous tree under which Isaac Newton sat when he is said to have first conceived of the theory of gravity. The tree was <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2006/newtons-apple-tree-bears-fruit-mit">given to MIT by Ed Vetter (Class of 1942)</a>.</p> <img width="960" height="492" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/apple-newton-tree-descendant.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Photo of a green apple still attached to the tree" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/apple-newton-tree-descendant.png 960w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/apple-newton-tree-descendant-300x154.png 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/apple-newton-tree-descendant-768x394.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><div class="featured-caption">The descendant of Newton's apple tree bears fruit at MIT. Photo by Donna Coveney.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>The <a href="http://museum.mit.edu/150/56">death mask</a> of MIT president Richard C. Maclaurin, created so that his portrait could be painted, rests at the MIT Museum. Maclaurin oversaw the Institute’s complex, exhausting move from Boston to Cambridge in 1916. With construction still underway in 1919, a special $4 million challenge grant was made if Maclaurin could raise matching funds. He campaigned tirelessly to raise the required amount but wore himself out and eventually contracted a fatal case of pneumonia. He died in office at age 49 in 1920.</p> <img width="422" height="422" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MaclaurinsDeathMask.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Photo of a white stone sculpture of a man's head, yellowed with age, lying face up on a black background." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MaclaurinsDeathMask.jpg 422w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MaclaurinsDeathMask-300x300.jpg 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MaclaurinsDeathMask-150x150.jpg 150w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MaclaurinsDeathMask-125x125.jpg 125w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px" /><div class="featured-caption">Photo from the MIT Museum Collection.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>Thank Samuel Prescott (and your grandma) for that linguini with clam sauce. Prescott (Class of 1894) an MIT biology professor and, later, dean of science helped the William Underwood Company <a href="https://betterworld.mit.edu/condensed-history-soup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">solve the problem of swelling and exploding can of clams</a>. Prescott developed tables of the precise time and temperature required to kill bacteria for clams and many other canned foods, making canned food safer and advancing the field of food technology.</p> <img width="960" height="690" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/timeline-canning.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="scan of black and white photo of two men sitting down at a table in discussion" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/timeline-canning.png 960w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/timeline-canning-300x216.png 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/timeline-canning-768x552.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><div class="featured-caption">In this photo taken in the 1920s, Samuel Cate Prescott, left, and William Lyman Underwood discuss their canning research. Photo from the MIT Museum Collection.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, MIT students took “going virtual” all the way, <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/18/1006217/the-minecraft-institvte-of-technology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">building a replica of the campus in Minecraft</a>: the Minecraft Institvte of Technology.</p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Building and Reconnecting MIT in Minecraft" width="1200" height="900" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XjvATlcMo9w?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>MIT’s radio station, WMBR, began as a campus-only AM broadcast station called WMIT. It aired for the first time on November 25, 1946, from the basement of Ware dormitory on 800 kHz. In the 1950s, to reach the fraternities located in Boston, the station applied for a Federal Communications Commission license. Since WMIT was already taken, it chose WTBS (Technology Broadcasting System) as its call letters. In the late 1970s, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMBR" target="_blank" rel="noopener">station reached a complex deal with Ted Turner</a> to give up their call letters that netted them a $50,000 donation. In the end, WTBS became the mark of the Turner Broadcast System empire and on November 10, 1979, Walker Memorial Basement Radio (WMBR) signed on.</p> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>A <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/10/25/257542/the-harvard-institute-of-technology/">merger of MIT and Harvard</a> was proposed four times during the Institute’s first 50 years. The third attempt coincided with MIT’s inaugural alumni reunion in 1904, and was actively opposed by the Institute’s graduates.</p> <img width="960" height="680" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/MIT-Harvard-merger.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="scan of black and white photo of men marching, two men holding a banner "Spirit of '76 Independence"." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/MIT-Harvard-merger.png 960w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/MIT-Harvard-merger-300x213.png 300w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/MIT-Harvard-merger-768x544.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><div class="featured-caption">Alumni marching to oppose proposed merger of MIT and Harvard. Photo from the MIT Museum Collection.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>In 1888, <a href="https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/story/robert-r-taylor">Robert R. Taylor</a> (Class of 1892), became the <strong>first black student enrolled at MIT</strong>. After graduation, he became the first accredited black architect and, over the course of his career, designed buildings for several historically black colleges and universities, including Tuskegee University.</p> <img width="691" height="885" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/robert-taylor-young.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="scan of black and white photo of youthful black man with mustache in a suit with collar" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/robert-taylor-young.png 691w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/robert-taylor-young-234x300.png 234w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px" /><div class="featured-caption">Robert R. Taylor (Class of 1892), MIT’s first African-American graduate. Photo from the MIT Museum Collection.</div> </div> <div class="post-data hpslider-entry"> <p>The <strong>first female student at MIT</strong>, Ellen Swallow Richards, was admitted in 1870 as a special student in chemistry, under the condition of “it being understood that her admission did not establish a precedent for the general admission of females.” Among her many accomplishments, she petitioned to establish the Women’s Laboratory at MIT for the instruction of women in chemistry, where she served as instructor of chemistry and mineralogy until the lab’s eventual closing. She also led the Rumford Kitchen, which demonstrated the application of principles of chemistry to the science of cooking, at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago; established the program that pioneered school lunches for children; was a founder of what would later become the American Association of University Women; and is responsible for introducing the term “ecology” into the English language.</p> <img width="767" height="1246" src="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ellen-Swallow-Richards.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="scan of black and white photo of a woman in striped victorian dress, standing next to a pillar shaped pedestal with a book on top." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ellen-Swallow-Richards.png 767w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ellen-Swallow-Richards-185x300.png 185w, https://facts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ellen-Swallow-Richards-630x1024.png 630w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px" /><div class="featured-caption">Portrait of Ellen Swallow Richards. 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