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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple ... , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this bridge? Not even an hour earlier, I was minding my own business

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  [annotation note="I may be wrong about this estimate because I’ve never been on ... months before the sale. When I first learned about this fact, it raised ... about it! After all, I’ve made… counts on fingers… two whole glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6 ... classes i’ve taken at mit, along with molecular basis of infectious disease

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  the competing teams; I also expect you will learn how one of MIT ... you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications to 'attend,' alas, but I can't wait to watch the archived footage later!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  we could not. As a former transfer student myself, I know that this ... : welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been fine. Whatever happens, we wish you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of the Festival last year here. This year, I wanted to be more involved ... must pull at least a dozen others with you.” I wish I’d heard these words

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ...  MIT Game Lab, with help from venture capital firm Seraph Group and VR@MIT. I ... , MIT Class of '92, is running the show. I haven't met him, but he's a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  As I've blogged before, many students who are interested in MIT are ... wanted to share a PSA! Sorry I haven't blogged much over the last few weeks. I've been mostly traveling since ISEF and it took me awhile to get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don ... it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  ;   I used to think that MIT was unnecessarily hard.  Certainly it ... that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... , punting is not an option.   --   Last week, I worked 75 hours

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  beforehand. I.e, more freedom to just do whatever. And that’s exactly what we ... with a few anarchist symbols spray painted onto the wall. And I mean ... living space. I think the first color he bought was this tealish kind of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... towards society's good… I cannot. Sure, the members of the Underwater ... describe these students’ courage is an impossible feat. I still remember the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  ***EDIT, 12/31/12 1:49PM: Of course, no sooner than I post this, it looks like the site is back up again! Thanks again for your patience ... , but I'll do my best to update this post as soon as I hear any further

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  to my favorite MIT band, Rolltreppe. I've been living under a rock ... these guys until I went to saxophonist Dylan's Emerson Scholar recital. Dylan, with whom I did FAP (Freshman Arts Program) almost four years ago

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  you hit play.   I thought about writing something kitschy and ... your dreams, being creative, etc. But something that cute and pat I think ... its star. I will, however, say that the Caine's Arcade website is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute ... -shirts, and other MIT paraphernalia, primarily because I'm much older (and well, bigger) now than I was roughly 15 years ago. This week, I got to add

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the ... “Proving Them Wrong” theme, and I got a request to share more videos from the competition. I tracked down the other speech-makers from the top 3, so, without

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist writing about the show. World of Wires is such an intriguing show. I did a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  night before. It's a well-kept secret. But I have proof. Behold the two ... , complex language. I was simply exhausted. Just because it's MIT doesn't mean every single student is a massive super genius. (Proof that I am not is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011