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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... some photographs of our trip. A legal compound a few kilometers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the ... directly. Blogger homepages will provide a bio, the latest three entries (with descriptions), and also a complete archive at the bottom. No longer

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the ... my past two summers were spent in a variety of locales (take advantage ... in the future. I am spending the summer in Bend, OR, a small city of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the ... ! And I hear Ankur was even there! I could have gotten to meet a reality show contestant! Oh dear, this has been a lifelong dream of mine. So, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about ... its own sake and also for a deeper understanding of the present and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  Another blogget for you all. MIT Men's Heavyweight Crew is a finalist ... by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little ... . With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about ... "Special Edition" cards, adding a little something extra to a few of the ... , and here's what I did: 38 of the cards have a number underneath my name

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... Tower A stock shot of a ballroom, all dolled up Here are the 10

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins. So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  film "Fantastic Four" (it got a "thumbs down"), and one plot point caught ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn't cook often and ... lunch and dinner. I got slightly sick of dining hall food after a while

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  section and saw a giant article on the MIT men's basketball team, and guard ... the academic bar isn't lowered for athletes. Earlier this year, we had a speaker series in the Admissions Office. We asked a number of faculty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  . As a Nextie, I had a choice between traditional and seminar advising ... it sounds like. You're assigned a supervisor, you schedule meetings ... your advisor every semester to talk mano-a-mano about which classes to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep ... with an unearthly chorus of low self-esteem for the past week. Take a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses ... and greets, pub crawls and administrative meetings, it felt like I was a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  for a good half hour. For what purpose was this? ^We lined up with our sorority sisters.                RING PREMEIRE!!!!! MIT has a very ... calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a 7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and ... . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012