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• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling ... image into orbit." Check out their website, at http ... they need! (image from the YNIS website)

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms ... MIT's mapping website, which is vastly superior to their old website ... . That's right, it's a website that breaks down Wikipedia page edits by MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  projects to improve life in impoverished communities at Tecnologico de ... the World Geothermal Congress, 2010. The host:  Enel is the ... : Pisa is small like Boston but has the similar feeling of a college town. The

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... the guidance of Daniel Kohane, M.D./Ph.D. He is currently working on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  that area is the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee. Lausanne is a very Olympics-oriented city. The IOC is headquartered there, Baron Pierre de Coubertin (who founded the modern Olympic games) is buried

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  around. For example. But this entry is about languages. Unfortunately, MIT's selection is pretty limited, but the classes are still great. (We only offer ... Italian is offered, and only over IAP.) The very first humanities course I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  . The clip from Calle de Alcalá is actually looking back at Cibeles, so ... resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is ... games- either in bars with friends or in La Plaza de Colón, where they put

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  of our high school friends when we go home. :( But, this is because ... ha! Well, this entry is a bit premature. Many people are still in ... 't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  world"), most within walking distance of MIT. Today is the second day of an amazing three day event here called the Scooper Bowl. It is billed ... * Mint Chip * Light Dulce de Leche * Light Cherry Fudge Truffle * Pineapple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  Application is live and available for download. A few important notes and reminders: The transfer application deadline is November 15. (There will ... is no online application for MIT transfer. To apply, you should print

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  French House. Nous avons beaucoup de traditions. Towards the end of fall semester, we hold Dîner de Noël, a fancy formal dinner. We decorate the lounge at the bottom of the New House 6 staircase: And, as is our nature

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America ... advances in aerodynamic cycling gear. Not bad, considering that Cote, 21, is ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  's Peter de Florez Fund for Humor, UA Finboard, and ARCADE. For information ... your nightly pasta taste better? Well, tomorrow is your lucky day! Julie

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  -Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot ... . Golombek of Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, for their discovery ... 're capable of something worthy of an Ig Nobel? The reason I bring this up is

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  experience whatsoever with anything at all. MakeMIT is a hardware hackathon on ... event is held on campus, you are free to come and go as you please, but ... allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  website. This blogpost is the story of how I wrote that website. Play on it ... story is to be continued.... Engine Behind every good chess website is a ... This is a blogpost from my friend that is a boy, Raymond Tran '23. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  This semester, in MIT terms, is “chill.” With only one technical ... supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... happy! I’m ashamed to say this is something that took me 2.5 years to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... 't get my financial aid package/appeal before May 1? MIT Admissions is ... , especially when it comes to something as important as finances. Is the reply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014