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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  Hall, the dorm that's set to be controversially demolished over the next ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  .  A Tale of the Widest Tim of All the Land Part 1: Born to be WIDE What ... at MIT?” To be honest… IDK either, it kinda just happened; but  Maybe it’s meant to be.    Hi y’all! I’m Wide Tim, a beaver named Tim

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  by walking past it a few weeks ago (it's a bit out of the way). They ... , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  pot will be controlled by a PIC that will also monitor temperature and ... : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to be working on applications right now!" Yes, have to be working on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... engines by using the water jet or CNC mill to etch designs into their ... drawing and tell the machine exactly how to make your part by defining the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Friday happened to be a Saturday. Let me restate this so that profundity ... fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a natural by-product of following your passion. The people who are most remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back ... be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... game. It's not a good way to spend your time. Go have some fun. Enjoy the

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  presented in a way that individual respondents cannot be identified. If data ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill ... helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... how to fail. If you're going to be a practicing scientist or engineer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric ... relentlessly upon Cambridgians' freezing bodies, the confetti to its gleeful ... visibly permeates Cambridge, and hike to Voltage Coffee, whose abilities

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

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  revolution and its consequences...[/caption] If you were lucky enough to be ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  Mildorf (Gold Medal), and Eric Price (Gold Medal). Way to go, Hyun Soo ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in ... competing countries participated. Contestants attempt to solve 6 math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  different way and we hope you like to read them. ... students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could ... different. From 1/15 to 1/31, the people who write here may write only using

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  were set on our way to make some yo-yos. We could have made a simple yo ... , flexibility, and rate. But as you well know by now, at MIT, nothing is ever ... Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  should be plenty to feed the 14-person floor for the next week or so. Paul ... prepared by a group of residents on Pecker floor and generously shared ... . One spoonful of corn chowder was allotted to each resident, provided

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of ... penguin Kidist A. ’22 of Georgia (the state), who likes to cite tweets by ... . In the meantime, I want to thank everyone who applied to be a blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  [by Faye '11] Photo Credit: cmagz.com tldr; version: pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of 5 stars! The whole shebang: I had originally intended to write this

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant ... 's that time of year that meteorologists call winter, characterized by snow

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013