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• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the ... and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you ... hard to think coolly today. Instead, distract yourself. To help with that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few ... point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  finger as crowds amassed on the sidelines to see what the commotion was about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  Admissions that is supposed to highlight the best of MIT's arts community ... . The center launches five to eight exhibits each year highlighting the ... to campus. The museum itself is located in the old Media Lab building

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  -internship, starting/continuing an UROP, learning to snowboard, making pottery, or (gasp ... -http://web.mit.edu/glasslab/sales_labsales.html) Luckily, my suite-mate Evie got in this class -can't wait to see what she ... where near comfortable on ice. Here’s a chance to change that. You might

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  , Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy, just to name a few. Last Thursday ... and dads with small children to local college students to dred ... composers in order to arrange and perform these songs with a live orchestra

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  , does it take so long? Well, think about everything that needs to happen ... 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the bucketload to ... all of the fee waiver requests (which we're happy to grant). The day

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

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live ... in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more frugal. Just playin'. But seriously, maybe it's because I only get to eat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  on campus, with almost four hundred easy-going people who like to hang ... , solar rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, a bright dining hall, and a ... you! I chose to live in Next my freshman year because I wanted to be in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  of Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham ... was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to ... consisted of running onto the field, catching our breath to humorous effect

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a ... are made to fit together, not built as a single entity. So you can ... not all dorms are limited to singles and doubles. In Baker, there are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  earth. From little victories to large setbacks, everybody's gone through something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the ... ? by Ana V. '15 May 2015 A Hard MIT Class by Vincent A. '17 How to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  Sudan, etc. While reading an article, I happened to sit up straight, so that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I ... :26pm: four minutes before the rover was due to land. Whoops. Good call

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... . I used to say "little" brothers but now they're both bigger than me ... decided to hold an "Eating War" this past Tuesday at their campus dining

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  biology, architecture and computer programming to design fashionable ... using math and biology to produce the designs of their earrings, bracelets ... program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... , gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours ... less intimidating. That's not to say it's easy. This semester, in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different, with a special attachment to stick on top of a hose. Some background on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  Since everyone seems to have Olympic fever these days (Michael Phelps ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... traveled to Europe from the US by steamship Times in running events were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway ... someone gave me the opportunity to find out, would I? I'm thinking if I ... the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008