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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  'm doing it. As an undergrad I played with a drumming group called Rambax ... 's taught as a co-curricular class (21M.460) you can take at any point during your time at MIT, along with a few extra rehearsals. You also don't need

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the ... can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had a vague idea that egg salad was egg plus mayonnaise plus maybe other

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: EA Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk. We understand that this may be a difficult

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... cancer from a truly innovative approach. But like all things at MIT, what really impresses me is the way MIT understands how a wonderful art exhibit

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow). We'll be doing more travel together as a group to meet with prospective ... FIRST Championship. FIRST is a pretty cool organization, co-founded by MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... stacked alongside smoking test tubes. I was sipping a drink and taking it ... bite-sized, fondant-wrapped sugary surprises. Wait, is that a mini robot

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  study abroad in college. The International Honors Program is a unique program in that it examines a thematic topic in multiple countries. The ... accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  firehouse across the street) and a call from our team captain saying that the ... sunny as it is, this never happened much. There were a few memorable days ... a hotel, add two practices a day, access to a hot tub and a television

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a time, in a land far far away (from all you non-local blog readers), a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure ... to draw some pictures to factor out a few thousand words.

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  northeast! Through a collaboration with Boston University's dance team, Dheem, MIT Natya put on a show called Laasya, which means 'dance' in Sanskrit ... chose to be a part of it because Indian classical dance has been a part of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  I bought a new mouse on woot.com the other day for $13.37 and I must say, it's very nice, but when my girlfriend came into my room she ... , it still works!" A week later, after I had totally forgotten about

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  . Huang, Newark [Delaware], is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of ... Kesem, a student-run and free camp for the children of cancer patients ... Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  home town – or someplace close – in an informal setting like a coffee house or book store. It’s not a test, and your EC won’t throw a Rubik’s Cube at you and start a stopwatch. The interview is a conversation

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back ... 's his door in action: A couple notes from someone who has opened and ... door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  corner of their heart a little bit from time to time, well, here's my ... the last years, I'm embarking on a multi-part project called "Where are you going, where have you been" named after a rather creepy (but

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  this year!). So, here it is, the official "I want to write a guest entry ... (personal peeve, I hate writing that is just a continuous block of text) > ... using the blogging software of your choice and just send a text file

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT ... the more common questions: Is there a nanotechnology major at MIT? Not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I got a friendly email reminding me of this rare mathematical oddity: "Today, 3/3/09, is square root day, which only occurs nine times each

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009