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  twerking, MIT style need more be said?

  

  Welcome to another edition of MIT Students Can Be Artsy™, aka We Do More Than Psets! Really!™, aka Things to Do On Saturday Nights at MIT ... poppy R&B... ...to ballet-ish... ...to an Indian folk dance by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at ... !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to taste, then snorting said solution up your nose. Fortunately, prior to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online ... of our process, we are certain we would not be able to admit them, and ... and were not able to be considered. We recognize it's a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  instead, partially because he no longer wanted to be supported by his father ... for Cancer Research also just so happens to be home to Phillip Sharp ... it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  seemed to be the worst part of the thunderstorms, though, as the hurricane appears to be passing by Boston with only a moderate amount of wind and rain ... back to MacGregor, a thunderstorm hit. And by hit, I mean a torrent of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  get work done if I need to, without being too distracted or bothered by ... 's got to be one that floats your boat. Us bloggers represent a nice ... House, iHouse, soon-to-be Maseeh, Random, Burton-Connor... ...and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  . People are being killed. And in two different ways, I feel powerless about ... the government, and then its students being told not to speak up? Is ... when the police bring conflict into peaceful protests, I should be angry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  my list of college applications. MIT eventually came back to being my ... only to find that I want to be an English teacher?” Though that ... student party in Philadelphia tonight. I knew it was going to be fun, but I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  memorial’s five-way shallow stone vault is buttressed by five radial walls ... Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake ... least once a day, so I was intrigued by the data plan, to say the least ... plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  felt it would be disingenuous to present the fall semester through only ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of ... , which I realize might not be the right word for this, to die down

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  Japan-based company in Tokyo who attempted to be the first private company ... could be compared to the nervous system of the lander. We were in charge ... city for these 2.5 months of summer, to be one of the 14 million going

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  need to be “sent” to MIT, not “processed,” by the ... ; Early Action applications should be submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on ... understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new initiative called CrowdMath. Richard sez: ...inspired by Terry Tao's Polymath ... problems for the students to tackle together. If the students reach

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  being convinced that it was the most boring thing I've ever had to read ... be aiming higher.. :P   Some ways I feel right at home here ... way I want to change the world!) :D But first I need to a Master

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  my body even if I just went to outside check the mail. All this being ... be on the highway, where I got to see some of the amazing fall foliage ... . I will admit, I planned my trip this week because it was said to be

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... graduating come Friday. And I don't even remember when i signed up to be a ... , next to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (with the enviable name

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... . Obviously this person wasn't admitted to MIT for being good at daydreaming ... quite clear that he'd assumed my admit to be some rich private school kid

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now ... the months to come. For example, next month I'll be attending a ... , we can afford to take some time off. As for me, I'll be spending about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... the audience can't help but be a little disturbed by the obvious age ... because I consider Steve Martin to be a comedic genius, but most of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005