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• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  D-Lab Food Fest A week on $2 a day, followed by a meal from around the world

  

  Sorry, I am a bit swamped for the next couple of days with some 14.05: Macroeconomics work. As soon as I can, I will write an entry on the delicious D-Lab Food Fest, and my week of living on $2 a day that preceeded it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 1 The first winning entry in the photo contest. What a view!

  

  MacGregor House, just before sunset. The left half of the picture is the ... Charles River, Massachusetts Avenue bridge, and city of Boston on the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  parts - Sometimes more powerful The Cons: - Not mobile - A lot of equipment to keep track of LAPTOP The Pros: - Mobile - Lightweight - Can do most tasks of a desktop The Cons: - A little more expensive than

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country, thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... yesterday when thousands of soccer fans streamed onto Hanover Street to cheer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  enough THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE: - Ukrainian - Italian - Welsh THREE ... - Bryan Nance (only sometimes) THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS: - Coffee ... - Shirt - Shoes THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS: - Tremulant - Death Cab For

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Graduation Webcast You can watch MIT's Commencement live and online.

  

  Good morning! You can watch today's MIT Commencement Ceremony, including the Commencement Address by Ben Bernanke PhD '79, Chairman of the ... special "pregame show" hosted by Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  Episode 6 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is available today. Stories include highlights from this year's 2.007 Robotics Competition, the "seeing ... ). Are there other kinds of stories you'd like to see on ZigZag? Things or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Varsity Blogging As mentioned in a previous entry, I made some end-of-year presents for my bloggers -…

  

  As mentioned in a previous entry, I made some end-of-year presents for my bloggers - but I couldn't show you a picture until they'd been distributed. Now that I'm no longer in danger of ruining the surprise, check

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this ... % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Activate Party Mode! Auctomated dorm controls at East Campus.

  

  dorm room in East Campus. The room is now 199 square feet of customized awesomeness. Check out the YouTube video of the MIDAS "Party Mode": You may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... , Jefferson Tester, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, says he ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection continues Regular Action domestic selection is underway.

  

  As you've read over at Ben's blog, the admissions officers are currently in the middle of regular action selection for domestic applicants ... through the holiday, and we'll continue working on the Class of 2010 every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up. They include: 6.186: MasLab 6.270: Autonomous Robot Design Competition 6 ... has been staying up until all hours of the night trying to refine his

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

  2.670 Stirling Engine Spinoff The 2.670 competition is tomorrow!

  

  Join Us For The Eleventh Annual 2.670 Spinoff!! Friday, January 20 in the Pappalardo Lab (Basement of Bldg. 3) 3:30-4:00 pm- Craftsmanship ... 'll post lots of pictures!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking advantage of your holiday time with family, too. Happy holidays! =)

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

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a ... equations in Latex. 20 pages of chicken scratch later and a solid 1.5 weeks ... report where I derived equations about the natural oscillation, center of

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005