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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a ... that? Blogs: You're reading one now! We do have others from all corners ... -speed films. There's also a general MIT video gateway. MIT's home page: It

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and ... to win this than a team from MIT? Register/Report Located Balloons

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  myself, traveled over to Hanscom Air Force Base (about a 30 minute drive ... first, let me start with a little background. The question I get asked most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day ... that aren't worthy of a full blog post (like, for instance, announcing that I now have a twitter account), plus there's a lot of corporate and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  they do. I've never seen a more packed Kresge. Not even for a Logs ... see a number of mirrors all lined out on the grass. Last year, students ... had the opportunity to try to bust the Archimedes Death Ray myth. So a

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  life that such a mixture of people works. So, how do I feel like I fit ... students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in at MIT?" This is a question that often times arises surrounding the

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  -Alaska Pipeline, and my three-member group is already quite ambitious ("Let's do a ... struck me as kind of odd that they picked "Do You Hear the People Sing?" as ... ! Based on a comment I got yesterday, there are still people working... and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  Infinite, I heard a loud boom coming from Lobby 10. Upon closer inspection, I ... long lines of students. MIT students do not pass up free food. So ... , MISTI will be celebrating MISTI week. Right now, there's a lecture

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren't uncommon; people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences Favorite ... motivations. Fun fact about yourself: I flew a jet (alongside a pilot) for about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  me. This morning was a meeting about our new viewbook, discussed in Ben ... finally a meeting with a student group. And finally, after posting this ... (discussion of all five of my top-5 favorite classes in a future post). Even if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  smiled a lot, which is neither what you do in Denmark nor what you do in a ... ’t always do that — for example in a beginner class where we’d just learned ... Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  the dorm we really had no idea what to do with it so we just set it on a ... 's her with the red hair) "It's a fish! Hey, um, where do you think we ... The floor on which I live, Conner 2, has a large TV. A large broken

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  fun stuff was happening. I think the following pictures will do a good ... registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during the weekend along with a folder filled with papers about classes, Safe

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I'm writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any ... Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your ... we have received a number of questions from prospective students who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy ... project in another post) I've been doing some pulsar searching. This takes a completely different form from what J. Bell was doing. Basically, I run a bunch

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  structured class? Am I just shying away from a challenge, or do I actually need ... My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  help but do give them a little time to respond. It’s not necessary for ... still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the ... be some distance away. In a case like this it’s great if you are able

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  what I'll do, but right now I'm having a good time, so I'm just going to ... within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this semester, i started dancing on Kinematix, a Northeastern team, which means I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  myself: Do you feel better now? In a way, I did. This time was different ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... that seems to scream "I don't know what I'm doing." But really that has

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021