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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  Ahoy, prospective students and parents* – and, well, anyone else who frequents these blogs! * The word “prospective” doesn’t distribute to parents here. I mean, I guess there are prospective…

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  I came across a news article on a friend’s Facebook page the other day. The U.S. Senate congratulated MIT on its 150th anniversary in Senate Resolution 195. “Mr. BROWN of…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in my wedding dress. This might be because I spent the whole winter in pajamas eating pretzels…

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the “20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows.” Though actually numbering 24, all of the Fellows are indeed under 20 years of age.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I’d put that text in some <marquee> tags, but I’m afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  [by Jessica Noss ’14] While MITSO, MITWE, and Chamber Chorus all have a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians, my favorite group is Techiya. As…

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because it’s about MIT students doing what they do best: Awesome stuff. Last April, a group of…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D. My last final is over, my boxes are packed, and I need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass rat is physical proof…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured that little piece of hell known as dead week. Yes, dead week. How aptly named. Some people call…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIGHTS. pretty pretty

  

  As you may or may not know by now, this past semester has been a flood of celebrations – all to commemorate MIT’s 150th year. These celebrations have been covered…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  For the sixth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll, but we do plan to admit…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I’d wake up to a note on my bedside…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an MIT student’s mouth are these: “You know what would be awesome?” followed shortly by “Wait…we…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, strangers. A video, a song, and some doodles.

  

  I… have not been blogging lately. It’s too bad, right? Sorry folks, I was just swamped with April, also known as Hell Month&reg. Please don’t hate me! Anyway, I also…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the title of this entry. If you haven’t thrown up yet, hang on. My friends from high school…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  If there’s one thing MIT students aren’t known for having, it’s spare time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you’ll find students making…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  [by Jessica Noss ’14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ended up staying…

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday’s “Under the Dome” Open House. To put that into perspective, hosting this many visitors on campus is as if…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  The Infinite Corridor at MIT is the pulsing spine of central campus. As the artery which connects most of the main academic and administrative buildings, it’s probably the only place…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011