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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  second floor of W20. The Wiesner Gallery is sponsored by the SAA and the ... of his photos a couple weeks ago, and now the Origami Club is having ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray ... . But given the speed of the water coming down a slide and the speed of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  about residential life.   More pictures of the Little Dome and ... building.   After the tour, my friends and I joined the rest of the ... brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, the Logs, Stu Schmill, and more, the welcome

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  here follow the path of least resistance and attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the most normal and infamous school under the MIT ... , non-Technology students here get the freedom of learning about cutting

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  fortunate to attend the banquet and celebration of the Intel Science Talent ... teacher, and this year's CPW keynote speaker). One of the reasons I really ... This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  . Yesterday was the grand opening of the biggest Apple store in the US, and ... store and the dozens of iMacs and Macbook Airs they have lined up in the ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  Technologies: A Talk and Demonstration Part of the series Hip-Pop in French ... choreographer and composer, Franck II Louise is a pioneer of the French hip ... , the dancers compose the music of the show in real time and are becoming

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  at MIT, and thus I made it my goal to transfer there by the end of the ... , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  can hear the pings of bullets landing in the street. As long as the electricity is flowing and the guns are shooting, I'll be awake in the basement and away from windows ready to answer your questions with the new and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I ... much of the Media Lab's facilities and offices are considered their home ... that these freeform doodles were exclusively the work of CMS people. And

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  stuff and was equally weighted with the other exams. The final was last Thursday and the last day of classes was the Thursday before, so I had a week ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  . These short-answer essays are only one small part of the application, and ... the last section of both Parts One and Two, there is a link that will ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

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

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  office's own running of the bulls, only with more emoticons and Dr ... Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of ... ... the coveted 50 pixel avatar of an Admissions Blogger. Sure you won't be

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  between peak and off-peak travel seasons, and the fleetingly brief periods of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... utterly listenable 51 minutes.Recently, I had the privilege and pleasure of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... . Clearly everyone else knows what they are doing and learned all of the ... raise their hand and ask questions beyond the scope of the class and talk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  is the annual Student Origami Competition and Exhibit (deadline ... gift: an origami Evie. The most amazing thing about the piece is just how much it really looks like Evie. Check it out! The origami Evie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  directly manipulate and assemble them. One of the few such tools is optical ... Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  Hi folks, Well here you have it - the new-and-improved MIT ... to keep the other blog threads on topic (how often have you been in the middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  that aren't on the tour, and, of course, some friendly advice. We can ... entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  superposition, the concept of linearity, the exponential shift law, and more. Yes ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008