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• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  Hola! I’m delighted to introduce the newest page to the MIT ... ideas for the page and working with the communications team on an Español video, featuring members of the Spanish-speaking community at MIT, we are

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the ... So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  * Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher) being elected mayor of Palm Springs in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist ... for launching such bands as Nirvana and The Shins. * Rain Man, Die Hard

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  the world can be enticing. So, in the true fashion of MIT students, I ... left for me and the other 20+ Cantabrigians and I couldn't be more ... wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  students living abroad who will receive packages from MIT and posted the ... As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  only thing better than being the King of the Internet would be being the ... ," as it was known then, was established in the Back Bay in 1865, but ... the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court annulled the merger, then

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  , or might even be in the process of picking one out right now. If yours ... . =) (The girl sitting in front of me during the Premiere happened to be a ... we're the last class to be able to abbreviate our year with a 0, as in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I ... the project. They even said that if we happened to be in Miami during ... should be required for civil engineering sophomores (when the engineering

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  ice cream on Sunday, I will celebrate this holiday belatedly. The ... I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer ... ice cream eateries, and the ones I listed above are all within walking

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Anymore! (though, to be fair, The F-Word never was)   How did you ... Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  ,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on what’s next, so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and celebrate, because it ... YOU GOT IN! It's time to You might be wondering, “What’s next?” Well

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  We’re all aware of climate change and the impact that it will have on ... challenges, and President Susan Hockfield established the MIT energy initiative ... student groups like Biodiesel@MIT, the MIT Energy Club, the Solar Electric

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

    Avengers: Endgame opened the weekend before last, and with it, so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday ... their best work in the dark), hackers installed a Captain America shield

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  claimed that the phosphates of the DNA chains should be located on the ... originally going to be published by the Harvard University Press, but virtually ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  will stop . . . the world," a reference to Dr. Horrible (look him up on ... Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V-day cards signed by all the bloggers. This means that we sat down, faced an

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the component of force that my will would experience tangent to the wall during

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that ... of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... , which ends with To be or not the choice seems clear enough but Hamlet

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  withheld dinner from me until I agreed to go to the movies. Being wily and ... think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... ! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  condition should the laptop prohibition Ever be forgot.The only verdict is ... You'd think one hack celebrating Guy Fawkes Night would be enough, right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007