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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  blizzard is coming up and hitting the Northeast real hard (Déjà vu).  It's a ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while ... us when we're sick, Is covered in snow, but only a few inches thick

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half ... dressed up as a motley crew of 7 characters from Doctor Who... plus a Spaceman Spiff, Finn from Adventure Time, a gypsy/Peruvian, and a MIT student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about ... absolutely essential skill for a scientist.   ... . What a guy.   Professional astronomy rarely involves sticking

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I ... ://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-amazing-grilled-cheese-sandwich-recipes) would be a good life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway, a few weeks ago Professor Uricchio told us we would be having a guest ... campus as a CMS alumna, MIT lecturer, and cofounder of what might be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything having its place and assigned number. It didn’t seem like a place ... . But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a ... —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp ... whole “constant vigilance” mode (a la Mad-Eye Moody) because Central

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  Yes, fall is here: This blog post will be a collection of several ... . I'm planning to write a blog post about the Food Coop later this week ... cream through a small hole in a jar into the LN2...) Halloween is this

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days ... campus doesn’t vibrate with the same lightning-in-a-bottle energy. All

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that ... tag). Never, in a dozen years of pre-college schooling, was the sin of ... learn the definition of a standard deviation until six weeks ago

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  've been making a robot!. As the hyperlink implies, I've been participating ... number is 6.186 -- MASlab is a course 6 class, but it is also listed in ... laboratory, which means that a bunch of college-type kids have to build a bunch

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At ... , we had a three day weekend. What does this mean? It means it's a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... with a miniature avalanche of lentils, peppers, onions, brown rice, fat pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  country's name comes from the Greek meaning "a single house," perhaps ... completing a computer program to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants ... will have made a leap forward. [read more] About the same time, I got a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  waitlisted students and transfer applicants are feeling a little left out. So here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or ... reconvene and discuss the waitlist. You can see a lot of answers about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... eyelids. 2.5 hours later, while on a plane streaming through this clear

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... building, all are a little different than your ordinary structure. While some ... INSTALLED DIP-N-DOTS MACHINE!!! A hollowed-out rectangular prism, it

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  , Wednesday 23 April and has a picture of a knight on a horse. I was with ... probably make a good blog entry. Okay, I should probably have published this ... 's Day is England's National Day. St. George usually depicted as a knight

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  Submission Overview Form by March 14. You also must be a US citizen or ... October 1st of this year. A number of MIT students are Davidson Fellows ... Candida albicans fungus with a combinatorial approach, cutting the time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007