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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... whole reason I got to stay on campus for so long after finals was the ... . As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  2.5 mile jaunt to the North End on foot, however, is far less likely to ever happen. The great thing about living on Boylston Street this ... into the wilderness on your own, but after a few rides, you start to get

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  useful to the soldier. Army members of Team ISN also give guidance on ... research to create new materials, devices, processes, and systems, and on ... At the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, MIT, the Army, and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  technology to bear on the challenges that cancer presents. Key discoveries ... research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the ... professor, Robert A. Weinberg, won one of the largest prizes awarded to cancer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  question, which was forwarded on to me by the awesome Nick '09: Alex isn ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... who wrote scripts (computer programs) to "stuff" the ballot box. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass Ave Bridge into Boston. I planned to run a quick errand on Newbury St to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  cooler to capitalize on the dual "E.Jones" thing instead of having "E ... 's differences. I dig that. I'll try to dig up perspectives on the other dorms in ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  mentality of "This is the dorm that, based on what I know now, I want to live ... be in now because it's not easy to get into some dorm in the re ... overstating it. Drew, you should make every effort to get into the optimal place

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  consulting firm, and is working on the eBay account. The eBay complex reminds ... pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of ... . ------------------------------ Thanks to Tiffany for a great lunch and lovely tour of the eBay complex

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  don’t have any carry-ons, the guard who is supposed to simply check to ... again, you might be lucky enough to be put into business class on the ... to the festivities on the National Mall. So, I couldn’t pass up on the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... nd largest contributor to Alzheimer's Disease research in the US. With

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I took an informal survey of people sitting around the lounge to see what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted An open thread for admitted students.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2011! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates. (Later this week, look for new stuff on your MyMIT portal)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted Posting for admitted students.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2010! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates (and, later this week, look for new stuff on your MyMIT portal).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  him, but the picture is on my parents' camera.) We went to Disneyland on ... I'll have to find out whether he's allowed to post it on the internet ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at ... it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  of Neptune. Arago's telescope is seen on the roof just to the left in ... once home to the Prime Meridian and is the world's oldest working ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to ... . My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to ... you get the Level 2 Water ring in the ice cavern, equip Wave on the left

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  for you, a la sub sandwich shop) on my way to the T. Descending the ... outsources their food service on the Downeaster to a company called Epicurean ... more lively than I remember from most Amtrak cafe cars. On the way to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005