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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... CCC. On Friday afternoon, I went with a group of about ten MIT students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... continuous windows (yay Next House! All the rooms on the 2nd floor have tons of ... sister and me: On Saturday night, after a long day of unpacking, my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now ... number of aspiring students has exceeded 18,000. As a result, our admit ... the vast majority of excellent, qualified, well-matched students who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... ) CRY or CRYO - Cryogenic What's on the door of this shed? *Assume the ... ?! It's insane! My words of advice? If the door has a sign on it that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  impact of his musical leadership is felt on four continents." His guest ... construction: the intimacy of a children's orchestral rehearsal up on stage in ... Facetiming on his iPhone with a woman who I presume was the mother of one of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies ... on the dot with the blast of a vuvuzela. Thanks to Facebook and the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  is...a deep and profound understanding of the word "on." Go out there ... -length weekend, if you don't have Monday off). I know that fall of senior year can be a pretty hectic time. During the October of my senior year, way back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... lasercutter! The newest one on campus is across the hall, and it is one of three ... Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  minute nap on one of the couches down there (during which time I dreamed about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and ... getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  were becoming apparent after three years of use. But anyway, I left it on ... disparity between the amount of money that I was willing to spend on an ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... of emails since Saturday and a bunch of blog comments, all asking for "just a couple of sentences" about why a specific applicant was not

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT ... It's that time of the year again -- MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite ... horizon. A month later, almost all of Boston descended on the Longfellow and Harvard bridges and, in boats and on the bank, the stretch of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... read our inaugural Deep Fried Taste of Kenmore Square event hosted by my ... event at our machine shop. Saturday night we put on our signature CPW

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for ... restriction on international students applying early will end. All students, regardless of citizenship or location, will be able to apply for either

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen ... five day program, we introduce the freshman to the world of product design through a variety of interactive lectures, awesome design projects

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are: pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... up on the roof (using a telescope to find Comet Pan-STARRS as the sun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  much about what we're working on, I'd like to share some pictures of what ... sitting on them. I was in charge of demoing our toys so I put on the lab ... . Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  always rain here. But I'm usually out of my room on gorgeous sunny days ... 're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that's about it. This concept of leaves falling off trees? Yeah. Completely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks ... on TV, part of the barge actually went up in flames. Remember, you saw ... barbecue. I don't like taking pictures of myself while eating, but I don

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006