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  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an ... 's actually just one of the many, many completely amazing professors and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... control. A small group of MIT undergraduates forming the group Biodiesel@MIT chose the latter option, and they were awarded the grand prize of $25

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  a copy of our correspondence: Do you believe what students put on the ... profiles as part of the admissions process, but do you know of any schools who do check students' Facebook profiles? Off the top of my head, no

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  This week in verse There's a song that describes exactly what I'm feeling right now.

  

  Rather than write a real blog entry, I instead urge you to consider the following: An MIT surveyor came upon the gates of Hell, He looked the devil in the eye and said, "You're looking well." The devil looked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Jo-Jo Update

  

  Chang '03 advanced to the Semi-Final round but, sadly, did not win. (The winner was the former captain of the New England Patriots Cheerleading squad) Joanne did win the preliminary Group A talent competition. Way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa ... answering some of the following questions: 1. Do people swim faster in water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the ... probably assuages the pain of full-body checking, which might be one reason ... they were in braids for the photo.) Each of the 19 glass panels on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  involvement in international development @ MIT. Enjoy! In the grind of the ... the college campus (hello Boston!). Yet, one of the most rewarding ... that every day. Hundreds of millions of people in the developing world

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the making of MIT Imagination, along with some b-roll and a montage of mascot ... Cancer Research Polly Guggenheim of the MIT Media Lab Personal Robotics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  went to the Top of the Hub (the 52nd floor of the Prudential Center ... Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring, check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... do our own correlation studies," said Marilee Jones, the dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is ... time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the ... about the different parts of campus that you otherwise might not get to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  students from the waitlist. As such, it isn't ethical to keep all of those people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of ... the best of luck at the college they've chosen. We also will keep some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts ... ? To see the rest of the article, you'll have to subscribe to Discover

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  the DCI site says: The goal of the Media Lab Digital Currency initiative ... important new area of research. The effort will reach across the MIT campus ... the DCI was established, the Media Lab hired three of the core

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... the number of neat things you get involved with, the more things you

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... colleges in terms of waitlist size, usually keeping one of the proportionally ... uncertainty around yield, we decided to significantly increase the size of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the ... Anna '11, who loaned me most of the costume, including the marvelous coat

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008