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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  free and open on-demand video streaming web site that features public lectures at MIT. MIT World has been in operation since 2001 and today has a collection of almost 400 videos in its online collection (you can also find it

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times ... have a test over in 5 hours". IAP in fact stands for "It's Awesome ... ": full size available here: http://web.mit.edu/~ccmills/Public/Sunrise12210

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of that, in a small white wooden building that once served the base as a ... imaginable, from Web pages to podcasts, software programs to movies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  the creators) is now all over the web, having been covered, among other ... Andrew Carlson '12. In the comments on Engadget, Russell said, "We did this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena ... broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... without you even noticing it. One aspect of responsive web design is seen at 0:17 in the video Google put out on Gmail’s new redesign

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn ... buried way down in the bottom right-hand corner of the site, and we had ... MIT mission statement that was crafted before development even began: In

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we're down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions ... promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... web sites for their admissions programs. These sites are great sources

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next ... last minute changes, and then submit your final registration in Dupont ... the old fashioned way with WebSIS. So as far as advising seminars go

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  to win some. When I was in my last year of high school, I was pretty ... community organizations, but I didn't put in the effort that I should have for outside scholarships. If you haven't already discovered all of the web

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  fireworks from outside, so we were almost alone in the lounge—quiet, not ... of the fireworks. I apologize in advance for our witty banter. I’m much ... 4th web site to read about the fireworks and about the live concert

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  , and I am nothing if not Serious - is Admissions Counselor for Web ... of buzzwords, like a pufferfish wrapped in chain mail and festooned ... unsurprising that MIT jumped aboard the cluetrain in this regard - to paraphrase

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  A rising high school senior who is currently in a prestigious summer journalism program recently saw me quoted in this article and asked if she ... in general?) Do you believe someone could be rejected from a school

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday ... table. So while we're buried in the committee room, here's a topic I ... we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received ... , we will mail them, sometime in mid-March. Decisions will not be available over the phone or the web. Q. If selection is over, does this mean I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into ... 're interested in watching Lulu, Kim and I graduate, you can watch the webcast online: http://amps-web.mit.edu/public/comm2009/webcast.html I was going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  Pia Lindman. Check it out. Finally today in videos from across the web ... very video unfriendly shirt in this vodcast! (you've been warned ... get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  her around campus next year...at least in The Tech. Here's today's Doonesbury: and see more at Doonesburg@Slate. The Tech covered this story in ... character in Garry Trudeau's popular Doonesbury comic strip, will be coming to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  confession in her blog on the college Web site. "There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009