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• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... waited in a long line to walk through metal detectors. The nice view of the ... opportunity to try doing research. And I had that opportunity because of this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  got to do the same thing! Except instead of LEGOs, we started with a ... If you're considering MIT, you probably like to build things. Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  for the day when he would not have to spent 2.5 hours [every day] of his ... wonderful font, if one of you readers or eager beavers already done with the ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a

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

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  to visit me and we went to see a semifinal match of the Legg Mason ... 'll give some numbers: - 125 = number of years the US Open has been around ... = number of Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open is one of them (along with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and chainsaw magnate Robert McCulloch submitted the winning bid of $2 ... Sort of. Do you remember the nursery rhyme about the London Bridge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  together a guidebook, and answering a giant stack of email. It's going to be ... 'm disappointed to miss, the great Hawaii Club Luau, the beginning of the Buddhist Sand Mandala (continues through Saturday of CPW, be sure to check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  table, some of the posters. it's also right next to the lounge, which is a ... senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an ... film producer. Jeez that's a lot of accomplishments, Riz. I can't wait to ... Labs. VRemedy is building off of MIT research to reduce nausea in VR

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  to be the Mexican version of Chuck Norris. This was admittedly a long ... days allocated attempting to solve 2/20,000 puzzles.) The winning team of ... campus. For some of the puzzles, the first challenge is trying to figure

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  -control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing ... year--two years ago, the mission requirement was to carry 2 liters of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a ... small group of people, but if you'd still like to take interact with the ... , WHAT?!?!?" kind of place. I just wanted to write that again.)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the ... . It's a battle of determination to see whose will is strongest. You've got to break it like a wild stallion made of hair. WEEK THREE After

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  able to take pictures of the Sun with my phone camera. Still too much ... pinhole projector rig out of FedEx poster tubes to capture the eclipse ... Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  ’re excited to meet other new MIT admits so we want to let you know about some ... and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to help welcome you to MIT. Beginning this Saturday, MIT alumni from around

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  coverage of the Rhodes announcement: It occurred to Melis N. Anahtar's family ... , including linguistics and fiction reading -- and plans to study immunology. Of ... Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... complete list of sessions, click here. You might be wondering, what happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  :28 - 8:40 AM: Breakfast made to order, the wonders of having your own chef ... As promised, a detailed recount of Bryan's Wednesday. 7:45 AM: Alarm begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... Mauritius (Geraldine), and of course to meet many of the parents, too (hi ... , as we finally get to put the face with the application. Sometimes, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to ... shivering as i walked from the shower to the pool. of all the classes i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  front of my mental eye as I plowed through my task; I tried my best to ... arrests but that none of us knew how to revive a dead ambulance. So we ... and all that, but sometimes, I'd love to drive to class instead of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010