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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  . He helped write the band's music and played shows in front of hundreds ... them, and 'like' the heck out of them. Joey, after all, doesn't have ... that is so typical of life here at MIT, I hear piano chords playing on

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  Jamboree, All A Cappella Extravaganza, and the 7th Annual Battle of the Bands ... matching up all 1,063 of you coming this weekend with current student hosts, and planning the Closing Remarks and Variety Show. After all the "day

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  with you, write a report, and submit it as part of your application. With ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Ultimate Frisbee team and participating in activities through the Society of ... scanning tunneling microscope that operates at very low temperatures and in ... surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator ... nonhuman features. The nonhuman movement of an android and its human ... Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... have taken advantage of it to an extent in freshman spring and sophomore ... , because of our separate schedules, we would wake up at different times and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... found another cluster. I ended up getting coffee instead of soda and also ... and I scoured the entirety of campus that lies between W20 (the Student

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  and destress. (Yes, this is one long massage chain.) We've got a lot of ... The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  represent and protect the goals and interests of all undergrads in an ... veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous ... these pictures - and, of course, inexpressible thanks to all the hackers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  Most of my weeks at MIT have been crazy and cool and full of interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... view of Memorial Drive, the Charles River, and Boston. There are also

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like ... , so here's a revised version: Here goes: I'm Mitra, class of 2007, course 14; I was born and raised in New Jersey (no jokes, please), but I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and ... , Music, and Baby Names. MOVIES Send me a list of your top 10 all time ... the top 5 songs and/or top 5 CD's of all time. (You can mix and match

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  as just a lot of math, and not the friendly kind. Interestingly enough ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J - Quantitative Physiology I - Cells and

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and appreciate the harmonious blend of cityscapes and seascapes in the metropolitan ... First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  about the common theme of games, dolls and playthings in his novel ... me and I just think that they're so wittily reflective of the world and ... movie and play it during their concert. This year it was "Planet of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  of tables and chairs. ...challenge accepted. Daniel and I put our heads together and did 13 of them in 2 days (MIT students are experts at ... started the day by running (1) and (2). (2) brought us to the Museum of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there ... defense in the vicinity of the basket, the offense has an advantage and can ... kicker can aim at the far left side or far right side of the goal, and the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding on you when you travel. You will need them. And of course, your ... specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... of thought. Throughout the semester you'll take 1-3 tests + final and ... power to roll out of bed and grab some breakfast making materials. I swipe

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014