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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  now it has become you know, a staple part of our day? - Hey whatchu up ... upon neat stuff about my professors, I feel just a tad bit redeemed. Two ... dashboard (Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform by the way). Usually it'd look

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO ... got to do the same thing! Except instead of LEGOs, we started with a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  -speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional snickers, like "why does a chemical engineer want to be an actor, too?" But ... a company presentation or missing yet another promotion. Perhaps this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of ... should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied ... Board has not yet released them. If you ordered a score report from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's the deal: I'm having a pretty boring semester academically. After

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  love his music. Joey Perricone is a sophomore studying physics and ... for 'Our Last Night'-- a post-hardcore band Joey was deeply involved in ... of people in cities around the Northeast. Joey faced a tough choice in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT--participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  , courtesy of BAK You are invited to take a page from a stack of blank paper. As a "specific object without specific form," this stack transforms into a process. It's nondescript. minimal! sexy. But this visual

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big ... and a police officer directing the flow of lunchtime walkers as a young

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine). The third day in a four-day weekend, it also marks what has been a ... record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of ... drinking from a firehose; rest assured, there are times when life at MIT gets a little more manageable. A “weekend off” happens once or twice every

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  Hi all! A few updates over what is, for us, a long weekend. First, I ... be a pretty hectic time. During the October of my senior year, way back ... in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  Last week, I spoke a little about Camp Kesem, one of the many student organizations at MIT and one that dedicates a lot of time and effort into putting together a free summer camp for kids whose parents have cancer. As I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... of us. Wait until you apply for jobs... then you don't even receive a ... a bit annoying - can't corporations spare the two minutes to write a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a ... book, glanced at the first page, and felt my face melt into a puddle of ... , I turned the page, and went on, shuddering in a rising tide of despair

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops ... week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... Architecture. It's a standard spacious woodshop with all the usual tools along

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... must borrow something, always return it-- perhaps even leave a note ... -ins exhibit one's pride in having found a location. Most hackers aren't proud of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... that class this past week. It's a 12 unit class, which means the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... many murals on campus. :) I'd also like to give a quick shout out to ... - which she made completely by herself! When she's not busy being a physics

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008