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• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  right. Eyes on the Frisbee, I began to run sideways. BAM. Crashed into a ... back on my feet. I'm so lucky to be able to join them :) ... On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here ... interest to you. So if you don't mind, post some topics you'd like to hear about and I'll try my best to write about them over the next few entries.

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  stressful competition to get into an elite school is harming young people ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... closer to Friday's expected mail date. Also, today's Boston Globe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  we bloggers do some work on presenting our living groups to you. For ... to fulfill that request. I will try to add some personal perspective on ... lecture. I like the fact that while EC is right on campus and next to all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Stop You're hurting the wrong people.

  

  To the person who keeps posting hurtful things to my blog and to Matt's, pretending to be "YJ" and others, please stop. It's one thing to mess with me ... - they've done nothing to you. Thanks.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  Coming soon: An entry on The Tech Nomads But first: 26.2 miles of awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple ... , where she plans on taking a short break so she can nurse her daughter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  We’re Bringing What Back? I don't think so.

  

  up this morning excited to verify the existence of this thing you call ... stop telling malicious lies. Thank you. Yours, JKim

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I must say though, Cambridge actually has pretty places to take pictures of ... figured I would take some pictures of places that are important to life here

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  On Saturday evening, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 Americans who ... 's count to 43 Rhodes Scholars. Below, find the "official" biographies of ... . Caroline’s research uses MRI imaging to investigate the area of the brain

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  that police say involved butyl alcohol and compressed air. According to ... 13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a ... actuators to short out. A second robot, a biped from MIT's Leg Laboratory, was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke '79 is going to be the graduation speaker for Commencement 2006. Bernanke has recently been nominated by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh cruel, cursed fate! Blerg!

  

  [Apologies to Wendy Macnaughton and Christoph Niemann for doing injustice to their art form.]

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let's zoom into some of the more interesting parts! On top we have a couple ... we hit a series of novels that starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  laser pointer to draw graffiti on the tallest building in Cambridge. He ... spent about two hours there this evening, then walked home. On the way ... always has a light on because graduate students never stop working. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... are about five inches of the snow on the ground right now, and traffic ... Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... On pi day, campus was buzzing with events.  That morning, I even ... social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  , ExpressionEngine, is, like my mom's 16 year old minivan with 250,000 miles on ... making it hard to blog right now. So, in order to not have to migrate n ... Charles in frustration over these EE bugs, this post is going to carry us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on ... applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on ... applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015