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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  does not disappoint. The play follows three story lines that frequently blend together and influence one another. First, there is the love plot of ... to hand the child over. If you think this means the play is old and

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a function of our yield rate, which is admissions industry term for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of ... here for what is now over nine weeks, the longest I've ever been away ... to spend the afternoon with me. That is... once they found me... Aside

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  ) have the opposite problem of most people, which is that instead of not ... fortunate. This is the point I tried to make in my blog post Life is Improv ... . Fortune is out of our control, but it doesn't drop out of the sky, puppet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The ... , your DNA is identical in every cell of your body. It contains all the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my ... 's sororities is not to put unsuspecting girls through Formal Recruitment. Formal ... , will discover that the difference between four and five classes is far

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  such as my blog is not the place to have a discussion on highly serious ... is benjones at mit dot edu. If I am not able to help, I will find ... the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the ... 've also developed nanoparticles to deliver the siRNA (although this is very

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  . Anyway, inside this dome is a library, known as the Barker Engineering Library. It's one of MIT's several libraries and it is one of the more frequented. Funnily enough, it is not normally frequented because people need

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is, leaving you hints and leaving you guessing. This is the entry where all is ... presentation so we decided to chill before the show started. This is when the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  not a big deal." 50 words over the limit is fine, but don't exceed the ... count is the measure, not space. :-) "I know how MIT likes to see ... A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... the chemical is made of and how they are bonded together ... wiggling absorbs) is dictated by how heavy the ball is and how many springs

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  eclipse, this year is also a [annotation note="when the Sun is at its most ... wind is whistling if you listen there's the harbor, don't you miss it ... thankfully the moss provides a [annotation note="not actually though—you’re not

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Concert. Here is a somewhat complete list of the history of MIT Spring ... Roast is a celebration of mud, meat, and music. Mud, because of the mud ... May 7 1970 MIT Armory 8:00 p.m. $3.00 $3.50 at the door LSC is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... ;     The memorial unveiled today is, however, the most ... . The memorial is composed of 32 solid blocks of granite that form a five

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical ... tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  Book, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side ... to Web design are limited). Also added to the site is a Webcast ... and discover what MIT is really like. The videos are one way to discover

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  is in the process of building a physics center in the secret ninja ... grammar. So building 1 is not next to building 2. That's a rookie mistake ... < 9, n odd, building n+1 is located in the same place as building n

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  living in the present? of course not. but while the future-focused mind is ... materialize behind him, and then the commander turns around and realizes he is ... play, i noticed a pattern that i was not able to explain at the time

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  adventures as part of the MIT Flying Club, which is, yes, yet another thing you ... Festival, the headline event of which is pumpkin bombing. Pumpkin bombing ... turns out, are not the best projectiles…but it was still cool seeing the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014