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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have ... that prospective students can review to help determine if MIT is the
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your ... the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we're happy to shed some light into that black hole. In fact, we outline our
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  During my trip to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa I spent two days on a Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping ... reserve at sunrise and sunset to experience the animals in their natural

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at ... Baker (one of our dorms), was uploaded to the internet. The instant something hits the tubes it becomes fair game, so now it goes on the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? John McCain is 2.41 Saturn years old. Funny story. On the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide '09 and her role ... Ruth. Then, on the way back from dinner, we were discussing Sam, Mitra

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  def hackMIT(); cool code & company

  

      P.S: This is the only bit of coding I did this weekend. Stay tuned for the next three HackMITs to hear about a possible project ;)  

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Graduation Picture Book Photos from graduation because I've lost my writing skills (~23 Pictures)

  

  I decided that since I still cannot write intelligibly in order to summarize what four years of an MIT education can do for you, I'll just post some pictures from graduation until I process everything.

  • by Bryan
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ZigZag Episode 8 A new video podcast episode.

  

  Episode 8 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now; I serve as host for this episode. My favorite part was getting to interview the "red jackets," MIT's 50 year reunion class: the Class of 1956. Check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Best. Hack. Ever. The title says it all.

  

  www.mitcannon.com Hats off, hacking community. Hats off. For the record, this is absolutely my favorite hack of all time... Amazing. -B P.S. I dedicate this to you. ;-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Superbowl Discuss.

  

  . In the meantime... Superbowl: discuss. Who are you pulling for? Who's going to win? And most importantly: who will have the best commercial?

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And the Lottery Says…..

  

  Burton Conner. Hi Mitra and Sam! *waves* Just felt like sharing. Right now I'm off to go shopping for random dorm room things, so more later.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  I'm about to head off for a two week in vacation in Paris, Rennes, and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT's awesome international programs. Current music: A.R. Rahman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Media Lab?

  The MIT Media Lab is known for its bold innovations that help invent the future, and fosters an “antidisciplinary research community” that mixes and matches seemingly disparate research disciplines to pioneer
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James ... Hopkins to talk about her work with zebrafish and cancer research that ... mouse person to a fish person" and how a trip to Germany during a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Stu, Matt, Nance, Daniel and I are all down in NYC for the College ... are pretty busy by day, but at night we've been heading to this sports ... being in Boston or Cambridge. Sortof surreal to experience that in

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007