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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  people, from young to old, including men and women. They currently have a ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  technically creative students ought to pitch their projects to colleges. Last month, after our first year of having a Maker Portfolio, I gave a talk at ... some interesting light on what we're trying to do with our portfolios. If

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed ... to admit fewer than 20 students. It is a difficult process: as usual, we are very excited about the students we have admitted, and often

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a ... producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught ... MIT blogs, thanks in part to its posting on digg.com, where it received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on ... up in applications that I didn't read Sunday's New York Times, usually ... -like ability to leap through puddles while performing his hit song, "It's Raining

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... way back to the selection room, we ran into Rob (another MIT '09), who ... good about the afternoon, after having seen and chatted with Akash

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted ... There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  because I like taking my time to get out of bed. I've moved floors so I stop ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to immediately running to class (from the farthest possible dorm to run to campus

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I ... other table. You know, change it up. :-) And so far you're all awesome ... you out of your reading chair and into an adventure, each applicant

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a ... entries here next week, promise. Have a great weekend everybody. -B Edit: well, maybe you didn't hear it here first. I would have gotten away with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  lil' bit about me 0:36 Why you DON'T need to stress out 1:21 What "being ... you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of others?" essay 6:38 The "describe your world" essay 8:38 The "challenge you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  de Florez Fund for Humor sponsored this free (to the MIT community ... out to the people who didn't claim their tickets lol     So I ended up getting to see Leslie in Kresge. sneaky far away

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  Yesterday, I got back to MIT, and my bedroom's view this year rivals my summer office's view. Evidence is below In case you're not convinced, check ... ! It is going to be an excellent year... I can see it already

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  left to right: Nick, Peak, Jijun, Johann, Mike, Donald, Amber, Kenny (MIT '11?), Ilang (Wellesley '09) In case you're wondering, here are some of their project titles: Use of Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a ... struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to ... to take that opportunity away from prefrosh. What they forget is that

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  ???   Everyone ran into her room after her and proceeded to have a crazy ... , decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons ... ’s nothing to say here, except that it turned out that the air compressor Zach

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  I used to play Pokemon. I won't lie. One could possibly say that ... decided that she wants to catch them all with her camera this summer; I ... must have been someone after my own heart. A DUCT TAPE COW!!! Duct tape

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of ... waited for the bleeding to subside. Props also to the Medlinks program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  , 'but you have to be a good communicator to be put in charge of large ... Why it Pays to Be a Math Geek (from msn.com) Selected passages ... , that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  that the simple version is out of the way, it’s time to mention what he ... I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had ... cluttered desktops that got too unwieldy to organize. And then, I saw MF DOOM

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021