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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I ... , and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion Picture (1992) You may have seen MIT: The Motion Picture on our homepage or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 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.

  

  Louis-Rosenberg on TechNewsDaily recently and thought it was pretty neat ... on the leading edge of a growing fashion trend. More and more ... would have these models I designed on the computer laying around my desk

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

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me ... lists of todos, instructions to myself, things to check up on, and so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  " and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... story centers on MIT alum Mohan Srivastava '79. Srivastava, a Course 12 grad who later wrote the textbook on applied geostatistics, now runs his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... mural on my whiteboard. I have a confession to make: I’ve never actually seen the elephants. I don’t think I even knew it was going on my

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... factors in my decision process (see below for resources on making your own ... plenty of space on the harddrive. So any old green computer couldn

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  is by Konrad Lorenz on the behavior of jackdaws. I know that sounds dry ... class focuses on developing the basic skills of a researcher: coming up ... hours working on the MIT ambulance, getting some extra driving experience

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  robot, never coded on my TI-89, never watched Star Wars. I did not get a 223,462,346,400 on my SAT. I did not take all 27 levels of the AP ... those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  I woke up at 8 this morning after passing out on my computer around 4 ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be classified as violent assault. Students even get a discount on the classes, so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  D-Lab, a lab/class at MIT that focuses on sustainable technology in ... train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what ... with air conditioning writing on the internet about how I feel when there

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  windchill hit -20, or that time someone said something stupid on gchat and I ... .00 on my TechCash account. Do you realize how hard this is? This is like ... open at once on a 13 inch MacBook screen. 4a) My own mother threatened

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  :) Based on yesterday alone, I feel safe in saying that the MIT Class of 2014 ... continue on Thursday, so if you didn't get a call yesterday, don't worry; we ... ? Definitely. I think some of my friends might actually be spending more time on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  it airs on Tuesday nights from 11pm – midnight (sounds late, but ... only do I play eclectic works, but I also give away concert tickets on air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  some answers. On mitadmissions.org, it says the following about the ... Midyear Report will be available on your MyMIT account in February and ... update us on anything important that has occurred since you submitted your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  had been on an MIT schedule, with classes and meetings tending to start ... all, "If you're early, you're on time; if you're on time you're late; if you're late you're left. " As high school seniors work on their

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... understanding how humans produce speech -- more on that in a later post. Number 2 ... ) this fall. It's basically a crash-course series of classes on education

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  Three days of Manhattan ended on Monday afternoon beneath a dripping ... and breaking like bones on the trash-encrusted sidewalk. Jess Lin and I ... my left kidney on the infallibility of my internal compass. Did you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  speed on what's been going on in my life lately. The last you really ... our paper to reflect our professors comments on our first draft, but ... Developing Countries), which was pretty painless- just a few paragraphs on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and ... on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on ... small saucepan. 2. Add beef stock and water to rice. 3. Place rice on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  major news on my end since the last time we caught up is that I got my EMT training and have started working on the MIT-EMS ambulance. On your end: CPW ... prefrosh, I couldn't make it to CPW, but I visited on my own about a month

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009