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• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... know Kano T. '25 of Nevada, spreadsheet queen, went skydiving on her ... Frontenac, varsity golfer and witch of balancing objects on top of each other

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order: Purpose of visit: Notable cuisine: More specifically... Pre-IAP: IAP

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test ... , I turned the page, and went on, shuddering in a rising tide of despair ... Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 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 ... with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in ... traditional decorating of the tree. Just a few miles from my house is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"... Favorite commercial: Intel and its support of ... programs, including a nice shot of MIT's own Elena Glassman '08 winning the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Time Traveling and Teleporting

  

  , three of the media outlets I most respect have covered it -- NPR, The Economist, and, this morning, the New York Times -- on page 1 of the national edition! Also, for those of you wishing for teleportation powers so you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  things. (Also kind of humorous how the remnants of an 18.02 lecture are on ... , here's the tabletop expo floor, on the 2nd floor of the student center ... Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate from MIT": Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class ... " (on the right.) It reminded me of my trip to Spain three summers ago. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates ... on thesis proposal ♫ one of these things is tougher than the others ... hideously uneventful details of working collaboratively on Ruby on Rails

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  funding from the Edgerton Center, they do quite a bit of fundraising on ... friends, and a conference for Camp Kesem. More updates on the flip side of ... After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• 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 the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught ... my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts

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

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets ... Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  , because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On ... section, they have a ton of non-fiction books on art, architecture ... at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  particular configuration is celebrated merely on the basis of its existence or ... focuses on the social and cultural aspects of networked life through ... on the cultural, social, economic, and political aspects of internet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

   recently pointed out. On day one of FAP, I was greeted by a bunch of hyperactive ... my cohorts and I were escorted to the FAP lair on the fourth floor of ... on the counseling side of things definitely gave me a different

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011