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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central Square Theater, ticket in one hand and notebook in the other, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. The show, Truth Values, billed itself as "one

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  during the summer. Unfortunately, the science options for the summer were ... 'd already spent the previous two summers taking an immunology course at ... musty old tome in the Harvard library. Pretty sweet deal. As it happened

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  even I forget this – mostly, in this case, because the grand prize ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to ... eligible to win a prize in the competition. There were three main prizes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a ... casino. The festival celebrates Senior House culture by sporting death

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try. I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture. Amy Smith gave an excellent presentation about some of the challenges of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ago about his work with the Grameen Foundation 3. Paul Polak (President

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  As Ben has noted, we have begun the early action selection committee. We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to release them on the web and through the mail. This is what Selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  The only course that comes remotely close to being as badass as aero ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the fantastic folks at the Davidson Institute and the new Davidson Academy. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... .) The article was created at The Tech booth at the Activities Fair, where

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly impressed with all of the applications (and there are MANY). Your collective enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score, but on the whole, people did pretty well. Below are the results, with the name of the country in each group from which MIT received the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  With almost no effort, the three of us were able to venture out into the ... in all the train stations make up a personal itinerary for you listing all necessary transfers and the track numbers of all the trains, so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  formula is written on the board, you think about it, figure out how it was ... .670), a class that breaks this mold. The course teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  Soon I'll be posting some photos and such from the hunt, but for now I'll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also, this week, I'll be highlighting some of the puzzles from the hunt. The

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show ... for the student rush tickets -- thanks, guys! I have weakly ... for the Straight Guy performed in the show... and since I was seated in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  A-woo-hoo! Since the last entry was such a frickin' saga (tm Betsy ... pictures of the band too. These were taken at last Saturday's men's water ... AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  amazing snack. You next realize that it's well into the small hours, and everything's closed for the night. What do you do? Put the two together, and join me on an all-too-familiar excursion. :-) (a closer look at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was print the Eligibility Checklist, which has been tremendously useful. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005