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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  little sailor being grabbed by the giant squid! Check out some of their ... invented the Robosnail and Robostrider. Jason’s origami page can be found ... I am notorious for showing up at the right place at the wrong time

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  more fun to be debating political issues with the other nobles when you ... costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like without the commitment, but then if I like it, would the MEng be a wasted ... graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  friends be absolutely ridiculous on stage. (And the play was free! Can ... that "no one" at the Institute appreciates, let alone participates, in the humanities or the fine arts. Well, I don't know about No One, maybe

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  there's going to be student art show in the fall to help raise money, but in the meantime, hot dogs and sodas are being sold in the courtyard ... , as well, to raise money for the fund. It makes me proud to be an MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  challenging, it was just a matter of learning the tricks and being consistent ... it would be really difficult to sit still for 8 hours (yes, the test ... becoming increasingly emphasized on the exam 8. Cell Biology (7.06) might be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What support is available for LBGTQ students?

  Hernandez '14, wrote a guest blog, Think Pink 2011, about finding the right ... , welcoming communities on campus willing to answer questions for current MIT
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  milk. The fermented horse milk seemed to be a hit or miss among travelers ... spoke the language, he knew that students could sometimes be unfocused ... is the best extracurricular I should be doing right now? How do you

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it ... showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the ... pain. In the meantime, I'd like to thank everyone who made this video

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the SafeRide shuttle to attend the Alpha Chi Omega (usually abbreviated as AXO, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  at MIT, you don't have to major or minor in the arts to be fully ... the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts ... . Arts on the MIT campus are rooted in experimentation, risk taking, and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16   When I applied to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... that could be found in almost every corner of the institution. Although

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of ... pieces of vegan chocolate cake, to be had. The birthday girl lapped up

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter ... political news media that clung to its storyline of the race being a "tossup ... sympathetic to the academic viewpoint that it should be open source. But I don

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  of being taught by one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project ... So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week. Now here's how the morning started. I'll admit that I don't read the

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  Thursday: Medlinks auction So on Thursday, the Medlinks had a dating ... would be. Fortunately, we were allowed to give a little paragraph about ourselves as we walked up the catwalk in front of our potential dates. "Bryan

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  semester to be over even in its earliest stages. Eventually, I perfected the ... It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  have the potential issue of having civil liberties being breached, and ... criminal suspect."   (about being at the center for civic media) "I ... , "Oh, this is a technical challenge" -- but being in the space of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  -contained. With the Meta, I had to be tethered to a computer the whole time. With ... the same object. I'm really excited thinking about the way this could be ... objects onto the real world. And it's pretty freaking cool. I've been

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here. **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016