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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  , and, of course, score free tickets to movies that people shouldn ... to stage a coup of the vampire empire, which may actually be evil and ... neither of us really likes coffee and a lot of the people who hang out at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a ... was put in a room with a small number of very smart grad students and a ... sabbatical - to allow me to go and pursue this opportunity. One of the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  tapped these holes and the hole for the base of the flashlight (although I ... training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  and stuff), I'm somewhat fond of my high school work. I mean, it's still ... skellys, and evil candy corn). One of my favorite aspects of the game is the ... pumpkins to gain health and stop moving. Here is a video of it in action

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of ... , answer questions and just generally be helpful. One of the ECs, Gregg

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  , swimming and fishing are progressively re-emerging as about 90% of the length ... home, to return to the hand of its Master. They are one, the Exam and the ... take some of our dorm's money and go canoeing! Woohoo! Basically, Burton

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  .A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem ... extraordinarily dense interview. I didn’t get through all of it, and I don’t think I ... poem, when it works, is an action of the mind captured on a page, and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  Entrepreneurship. Besides providing a massive amount of mentorship, resources and ... startup today. Sam Udotong and Krish Ramineni, co-founders of Fireflies.ai ... to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  -less frosh and rise over four years of undergraduatehood to become masters of ... vision, of course), working part-time for two startups, and UROPing with ... . And of course, there's his unicycle, which he now uses to travel to work

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  wrote to the president of MIT at the time, and asked for his opinion first ... love twitter and the interwebs in general. For example, "Letters of Note ... entries are just about the length of a tweet, and they were posting an entry

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  and lab, which is really kind of stupid if you live on the far west end of west campus. Especially because Boston has stupid weather. But Adam ... ways and have trouble admitting that I'm wrong. Today, I found out that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... and prevent cancer. [...] The project, which might end up with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  is doing this IAP and a quick recap of our winter break! Winter Break ... pretty photoshoots on her Instagram and did a lot of work for rocket team ... added another job on top of that and am back at my old UROP, but under a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  , and tons of music and dancing. I highly recommend it as a Halloween ... value and street cred. Here's one of the first songs: One more thing ... , differential equations, and I was hanging out with one of the campus FOCUS

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... tons of i3 footage, and make 5W’s rush posters. What now that I'm no ... misses the interesting pset problems and mind-shattering all-nighters of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   It’s mid-October in Cambridge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  depressed and start asking yourself "Why am I here? What am I doing with my ... the coolest bridge ever? I'm not Course 1 (Civil and Environmental Engineering) but this picture made me envious of everyone who is. The bridge is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  alphabetical order (yes, I cannot pick one) from each of her albums and will be ... toast of the town, babe  Or if you strike out and you’re crawling home ... AGAAAAINNN. I have heard a lot of hate on The Man, You Need To Calm Down and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  holes of Boston architecture. We walk past a small park, and cross a ... weeds and laughs. The thin notes of a song glide across the sail, dark as ... And birds go flying at the speed of sound To show you how it all began

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019