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• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other ... Sometimes MIT catches on fire. Ok, maybe not actually, but sometimes MIT thinks that it catches on fire. On more than one occasion I've found

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  means that you should you should click the final "submit" button of your online application on or before January 3. If you are applying on paper, have the Post Office postmark and mail your materials on or before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.

  

  The PBS show NOVA scienceNOW had a wonderful story last week on MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group. It featured not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s alive! I built a little car.

  

  . My car is sitting in front of me begging for some TLC. UPDATE Today, in lab, Professor Blanco helped me on my car! Thus, it's still not done

  • by Bryan
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish ... this guy, many Americans would be feasting on their national bird over

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So, along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM ... seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... On Friday, my friend Weywey '06 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering ... through this entire bin of orange, red, and green markers until she found

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... , but this one was much more organized. We had four "flights" of dark ... to tasting, though; you're supposed to let the chocolate piece melt on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  It all started on Monday night. I had a big French III essay due Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since ... . Shockingly, I was pretty tired for my 9:00 AM lecture on Tuesday morning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  having trouble using our site on mobile devices because the navbar and ... injecting visibility:hidden to a div at the top of the page. It's been corrected and you should be able to click on things now, like blog posts and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  camer-AHHHHH! redux

  

  Mitra always has snazzy photos on her blog (though I am sad to hear about her recent camera issues), while mine, so far, is just text. So on my last trip I took pictures of my Central Meetings and promised to put

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  Everyone is up late this weekend studying for finals. I'm immersing myself in math, but I think I now deserve a good night's rest. After all ... machine of the working world stops. If you're waiting for a meeting to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  the power to decide your own worth. Part of resiliency is playing the ... a good option. Because in life, every hand can be a winner if you play

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• 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 ... adolescent arrangement on plastic sleds in February: a novel approach of ... , the question of how to best distribute bodily mass on sleds is a

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

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  world. If you're hosting an event on campus, you can get hundreds of ... and 18 and in the shape of two semicircles. There's a point on the ... have a great time." However, still, it's one of those things that I never

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look ... difficult. Taking the pages out of their page protectors without hurting ... like stickers. I hope you liked some of my pages. It really is relaxing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  see a number of mirrors all lined out on the grass. Last year, students ... to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what ... concert. Mythbusters on stage. Now, what you might not know is that the

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  'm much busier than I thought I'd be: behind on email, behind on blogging ... building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to ... should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  It's May 1st. Most of your friends have decided where they are going ... well at MIT.     First of all, please   and let ... ; 1. Are there normal people there?/Are 'my kind of people' at MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014