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• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw ... no surprise I’m blogging about food) A few dishes here are familiar, while others I never could have imagined. Some interesting things about

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  . That's what I learned this past weekend, when MIT's Association of ... .     Depending on where you go, you might be asked - as I was ... changed as one of MITMUNC's Crisis Staff Directors - I was engineering

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  : Sam Kronick '10 Last Friday I had the chance to check out all three ... piece (or at least, I didn't catch the title) is a six-screen video of ... can listen along. I wish there was a mirror, though, so that the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  sneakers run into gold rings, I'm sitting in a dark concert hall watching a ... original; I could close my eyes and imagine I was playing the video game, hearing the music as I'd originally heard it. After pieces from Chrono Cross

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

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  survival of snowmen everywhere! We will defend! If I could give them out, I'd give out an instant admit coupon to anybody who immediately recognizes the title reference. Anyway, I don't know if you've heard, but snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  number and won’t be able to return your call. One year when I was interviewing students I had two people on my list with the same first and last name and when the first one didn’t leave his phone number I had no idea

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

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  clothing tips. Admittedly, I wasn’t a Glamour reader before the competition, but I plan on subscribing now. Along the same lines, if you visit L ... , I'd highly encourage college girls out there to consider applying for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  I'm finally recovered from the Mystery Hunt... here's the "official ... triumphed over evil. I played on team "Lego My Ego," based out of the Simmons ... , what's the verdict? I'd say that this was certainly on of the best Hunts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... otherwise would sail over their heads. Co-founder of iRobot was told 'that ... Greiner set about making her own robots. Today, her company, i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... material unless the application did not sufficiently show who you are. I hope ... recommendations I've seen have come from research mentors, youth group leaders

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  summary of the report (only 11 pages) can be read here. I anticipate that ... , especially among the undergraduates. Already a couple of the talk lists that I ... reaction to it, illustrates something about MIT that I think is very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... picnic a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing him and his band of ... game of volleyball. Unfortunately, I did not have my camera with me, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 ... downstairs with your dirty linens, or the emergency pizza button on (I believe ... playlists. The idea was an instantaneous success. I didn't even live in his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply. Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... successful college/MIT student? I'll be happy to answer any questions left in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the ... I did last year, it’s not a class (no homework—yay!!!). Instead of ... within Paris, and most meals. I’m really not exaggerating when I say that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so ... , and typically when I sit through one I'll live blog about it. So here

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  on bold ideas that I find MIT instills in students so well. His Hacker ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEnT ME THIS (!!!!!) too cute. I had heard from the rest of the African

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking ... experiences. And while there are no formal Boston/Cambridge tours planned, I ... parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008