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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... structure has to provide sleeping area for the 10 people in our class and ... had to sew a whole set of beds as well as parts of the roof cover?? Or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  . Renaldo Webb, a Marrero, La., native who plans to study subatomic physics, is the first person in his family to attend college. A graduate of MIT ... and 16 percent underrepresented minorities. The class weighs in with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for the next 5 days or so. We hope to meet with 3 students from the University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for ... is to bring together global experts in areas ranging from cryptography

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment ... thesis proposal about to be turned in. Reese what are you doing that is not how cat feet work That's better. I'm in a cooking group on my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when ... , Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many ... ’o. “Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  always seem to be sharing the elevator with a stranger in awkward silence ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a ... it must have the potential to make a positive contribution to society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  picked up running. I guess that's what happens in your late 20s and 30s. ... Hello! A lot has changed, but the friends and the vlogs remain. Doing this in the only way I know how :) [embed]https://www

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public ... plans to do a doctorate in bioengineering at Oxford. Congrats to ... in brain and cognitive science, with a minor in literature. She has

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

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The ... . (Disclaimer: These photos are in no way intended to discourage you from applying to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a rage comic. Maybe you will too. And if so, you can join me in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  testament to how often I get too lazy to pick out a real outfit and just ... an addict. No matter how hard I try to fight it, I get this uncontrollable urge. Every single time I get a free t shirt, I can't help myself

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize ... responded. Several essays I wrote in application to a particular early ... application to be a volunteer member of an advisory group in my city, and never

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  I have three final exams this week, so what better time to be ... ://techtv.mit.edu/about/)! If you think MIT students are too smothered with work to let their ... (in Origami) Vol. 1 — (Does Brian look familiar? That’s because I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  vs. Spam as a stepping stone to the presidency. Still, I must say, I ... strong that I felt the need to express it in an avant-garde photomosaic on ... is a lovely picture, and I've been trying to find an appropriate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old ... more robots in the Media Lab." And to that I say, of course, that’s MIT alright, and we plan to show you more of that in the coming months, so stay

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  .  We don’t have time right now to write something too substantial, so in attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no ... friend’s, who left the theater in a trance, repeatedly saying “what the f

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor ... professor, Robert A. Weinberg, won one of the largest prizes awarded to cancer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  a glacier lagoon and returned to Vík to stay in a cabin on the beach ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white ... a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016