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• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  Posthumous isn't the right word, but it's among my favorite in the ... indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  noted artists to campus to work with MIT students. The program is called ... than 40 years. Some of the previous Artists in Residence have included ... the opportunity to work closely with Tan Dun and also with Guillermo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  Three days until the US Open officially begins! As an engineer, I'll give some numbers: - 125 = number of years the US Open has been around - 1,100,000 = prize money for the Men's/Women's tournament winner - 4

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the accordion, my uncle plays the clarinet, my first cousin plays the piano (he

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out lengthy manned flights to Mars and beyond, engineers must protect the safety ... gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  I was reading back over the last two entries and realized I may have ... biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  long, long time. :-) I got here a little after 8AM, worked the registration desk until a little after 8PM, went to the Prefrosh Welcome Event in Rockwell (where Marilee spoke and the Logs sang), picked up some liquid

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  Pictured above are some robots from the 6.270 IAP competition. I'm writing an article about the tournament for the MyMIT website, so I won ... . I learned the charming way to “dab” (not wipe) my mouth. I learned

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  up: the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area, starting Sunday. I forced Ben ... himself an actual MIT class. As usual, Prof. Sadoway (former Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, by the way) played

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

   I — the small adorable telekinetic green alien child writing this ... log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into ... decisions.mit.edu. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  is the Siemens Research Competition. MIT is a University Partner for ... -12 during the 2016-2017 school year are eligible to win up to $100,000 in college scholarships through their participation in the competition. Siemens

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  Matt Damon? The actor? I thought MIT Commencement speakers were ... like I'm being harsh, but I wasn't the only one thinking those questions. Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  When I got out of my 5.13 lecture at 12:55, I walked from the Green Building to my UROP in building 18 (oh look, it's that map again- the Green Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Incoming freshmen, come to the Activities Midway tomorrow! Find a group where you can continue your hobbies and try something new.

  

  the Activities Midway, on Friday August 31st, 4:00pm - 6:30pm in the Johnson Athletics Center. You will have the opportunity to see almost every ... the MIT Undergraduate Research Journal table (#105, near the entrance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  . You’re putting yourself on paper. Recognize the things you did and fell in love with. The traits that make you whole. Does that sound scary? To me it did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  and the fabulous glamorous divas of popular culture. Got it? Now ... and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... the help of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME). I was intrigued, not only ... -20 different room layouts a year I'd say I'm a bit obsessed with the idea of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard ... was scared to do it right. but, i think it's important to share with the ... , and eventually moved out of East Campus (ec). it was not only the dorm i

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode ... his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide ... . So they did! I heard stories of the Walk when I met Xavier this summer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023