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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  -pset activities range from cartoon viewing to wrestling. We have pieces of “art” on ... on the ceiling from which to hang stuff. And oscilloscopes. Lots and ... ’s not rare to see a freshman and a senior hard at work together. On the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• 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 ... , including undocumented students) could not apply to MIT during the Early Action (EA) admissions round. We are pleased to announce that, beginning

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

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  standing on the side to keep it from sliding into oncoming traffic. [caption ... utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my ... leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  (Military Operations on Urban Terrain) training exercise. Twenty insurgents were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  mattress pad, cooking utensils, etc.), and the rest to bring with me on a ... limit and carry-on backpack, I was ready to embark on my first stop -- San ... . Shoutout to my friends (two from MIT!) for coming to watch and cheering me on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  into the kitchen to enjoy a free dinner. Remarking on the quality of the ... 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 / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my ... generally difficult to schedule events that everyone can attend. The turn ... included scavenger hunts, improv skits (apparently I’m hard to make fun of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker ... rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration ... for the blogs. Then it took me two years to write the post. Half of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now ... any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  've been offered four dresses to try on. Just seeing them in my room fills me ... several weeks building them in lab. We're so excited to launch (and to finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to ... from lying down on my bed in the dark with window shades up. The night retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody ... "HappyBoard." ($1,500 worth of LEGOs, sensors, and HappyBoard). To avoid ... given all of our supplies and an objective. We then had a month to build

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  engineer to appear on such a high-profile tech publication that I can recall ... an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of ... traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a ... MIT blogs, thanks in part to its posting on digg.com, where it received ... producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  extremely interesting, and I really want to go on more trips with them in the ... In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  reacting, we must recognize and learn from two elements that may seem to be ... don't expect our applicants to be perfect, we do require them to be truthful. And we must hold ourselves to that standard. I want to reassure

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -valedictorians set for MIT Originally posted on: Friday, May 29, 2009 by Adam Freeman ... school, so it's just wonderful that we're able to do this together and ... don't even think they're twins. They don't look alike to us. Their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  ! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in ... to our surprise (and probably most people’s lack thereof) this was the ... that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  're accustomed to on our birthdays? Well, I think I've lost that a while ago, but ... . Today, all gone, gone, gone. I woke up this morning to a quiet ... light outside was grey and a bit yellow and when it deepened to blue I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008