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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is pretty cool. What's even cooler is that these professors actually teach ... 2004. This year, one of the TA's for that class is Wolfgang Ketterle

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  . The most basic building element is a point-like particle, which has ... directly manipulate and assemble them. One of the few such tools is optical ... pressure is just the momentum imparted to an object from light. Basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  schedule!) Needless to say, it's pretty awesome. Tonight is our one night off ... - what I didn't know is that everyone else is thinking about the same

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... he added, "The cost of sequencing is dropping enough that this is no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going ... watch is The OC. Damn it, I love The OC. It's like Beverly Hills 90210 ... OC... yeah, I know. Okay this post is over. < slinks away in shame

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was ... is completely true: we are indeed looking for human beings in every ... 's incredibly refreshing to see that the rest of the office is inspired by it too

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  undergraduate Special Students program is closed except for a very limited number ... invited by an academic department as a Visiting Student. There is no central ... must invite you to their lab to engage in research. If there is a
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  Colombian restaurant near the Boston Logan Airport. Punto Rojo is quite far ... went to Veggie Galaxy for brunch. Veggie Galaxy is a traditional American diner on Mass Ave near MIT, with the twist that everything they serve is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  alarm. 11:28 — This alarm is louder. I start blinking. 11:29 — Another ... totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... doesn’t get stolen. In the darkness, I hear whispering sounds. Is it just

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  January, of course, is IAP. "Independent Activities Period" is a deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... Frisbee". Is it art? A joke? Is it even funny? Hard to tell. But now we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  them. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro This is my favorite book I ... that something is wrong, that the narrator’s own model of their world is ... denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  was the right decision for my recovery. The good news is, I am on track ... Monday, and in Thai culture, Monday is associated with the color yellow ... funny story This year’s theme is balance. Ironically, because of my brain

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over ... reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is ... felt like this was sort of my last real semester at MIT. this is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2028. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons ... one of my best moments.    The Simmons trampoline is a great ... really is that easy.  [carousel image1="94971" image2="94969" image3

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  feelings. I felt very old. Concretely, this is simply untrue… I’m 19, which, I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... differently. Arkansas is many things, the most obvious being beautiful. I forgot

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  morning nor night), or how to sense when my social battery is gasping and ... this blog is a collection of those observations: some things I learned ... along—two is greater than one, right? What I didn’t realize was that, in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  [annotation note="Welcome, everyone!"]ようこそ、みなさん！[/annotation] It is ... , Mission 1, may have unfortunately [annotation note="This is a very nice word ... at least arriving to the moon is incredibly impressive.  But don

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

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  cat now! (And what a beautiful cat he is, might I add.) Pspspspsps ... I hope you have a great fall semester! Mine is already off to a great ... [/annotation] this semester? It truly is the best place to live on campus.) Edit: My

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023