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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  good guide to making the most of it here. I also met Ashu, one of the ... transformed for Toast to Tech     Week of June 6-June 12 This week ... and into some kind of reflective and integrative practice of trying to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post ... 's definitely not what I expected to produce, but at least I have a basic idea of ... First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  students are the first generation of their family to go to college. We also ... 2005 57% of college students were female), we've come pretty close to ... schools. I'm not going to name any other schools here, because many of them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  directly ahead of you. I know many of you find it hard to picture yourselves ... wanted to take this entry to assure you of one vitally important fact ... . Take advantage of every opportunity you can find to pursue what matters

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... 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 / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  of time learning basic lab techniques like how to slice brain tissue ... electrical signals from surrounding neurons to the cell body of the neuron ... areas of the brain are connected to the “control center” of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and ... 's all of the bags I have... for now. But I'm always trying to get that bag

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define ... in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a ... , many puzzles to do. The [annotation note="for those of you who do FRC

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  pretty much correspond to every time of day I have. Sometimes, the premade ... brings to mind my hall’s Walcott Lounge (one of two lounges in the East ... and one of my friends spinning poi (he did a routine to this song, but I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... of my whining, because he shot back a link to this book title and said ... bunch of us Admission Counselors had the pleasure of listening to her talk

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a ... all their own - Trinity happens to be one of them. Since I sing with my ... day but to different music. In fact, most of our job is constantly

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems Engineering. It has lots of different components to it - so far we've talked ... any questions - I know it's kind of hard to follow at first. (And as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... binaries to indicate the existence of a binary star system. So, when one ... measure the accuracy of the midpoint measurement by comparing it to existing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  FREE activities as part of its day long Open House (also the kick-off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask ... seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts ... .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... intervention. It's pretty awesome stuff. On to the last set of photos that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Dome, online. Click To Play   Of course, watching a video clip ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  deferred, you are one of the applicants who are going to be reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present ... that you don't know what to call; all of those feelings are perfectly

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The ... Triforce was created by three Goddesses to serve as a symbol of their sacred ... In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday ... chunks go in the radial direction when it crashes to the ground? Answer: Far. So one of the highlights of this weekend was the annual Pumpkin

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  human dimensions of memorial responses has given me a way to think, now ... the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007