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• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  BEHOLD! I MADE FOOD! GOOD FOOD! Remember when I set my IAP resolution to cook dinner every night? Well, I did it!* *Okay, I mostly did it. There were a…

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

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this semester: RING PREMIERE!!! Many…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for more blog posts during IAP,…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team — the movie “21” and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich’s “Bringing Down the House” — then…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the most awkward conversations I’d ever been…well, witness to. There’s a little thing called small talk that…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

    This year’s #IAParty2011 wouldn’t have been complete without a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such, here is a complete listing of…

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  Sooo ~ MIT’s back in session and life is again much too full with everything except enough time. I’m taking the following classes this semester: 7.05 – General Biochemistry –…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world…where engineers want to become leaders…3 students must face the truth…about engineering leadership. As I hinted at in my last entry, Kevin ’11, Joe ’12, and I had…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a trio of my favorite MIT students featured prominently on an online magazine site that I visit daily called…

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in life. Last semester’s demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  I’ve decided I talk too much. I need to give some other people a chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program lately for…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I’m working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends. Hope you’re surviving the snow!…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• 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?

  

  MIT these days is pretty up on the latest social media, as is befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel like a middle-age technology reporter.…

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation with hiking or museum visits or…

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I’ve made to lead me there, I noticed a strange…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  Well hey there, folks! Remember me? You know, that one weird kid blogger, the one who always makes you go “How’d she get hired?” I’M BACK! Yay! And I made…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at http://my.mit.edu. Complete your MIT Midyear Report now. The MIT Midyear Report is an online form that…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting. Thanks to those of you…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011