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• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... wave hits a difficult spot, knowing the people you live and learn with is ... -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT ... for the show, but Tavares, a space and technology afficionado ... , though, is interdiscplinary in nature and stems from a desire to establish

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  where we heard how a drug goes from an idea to production - lunch at De ... stuff. Day One: - we heard a talk from a postdoc, Lyle Simmons, on DNA repair. Lyle will also be teaching 7.341, Not Just a Bag of Enzymes: DNA

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a ... work? The answer has to do with winding numbers. A cut is a closed curve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this ... was a really wonderful class. But seriously, this isn't just for Course

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  you get to choose where you live and stay with something like a family ... people for years and years and they're all starting to drive me crazy, I ... thermodynamics equations so I spent a good 15 minutes during the exam trying to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  for inspiration? Let me introduce you to a few really wonderful ... "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  "] SDS [/annotation] suggests that it’s “not expected to present a ... , so it would take a lot less milli-Q water (as compared to tap water) to ... ethanol sometimes has a small amount of methanol mixed in specifically to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a ... went back and forth for a bit trying to decide whether our bebe should be ... lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• 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 ... is a lovely picture, and I've been trying to find an appropriate photograph to paste a cutout of good old Rick's head onto. I've decided not to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  using parts of our class discussion as research for a follow-up to his ... ’s “New Faces of 1996” and has since garnered a PEN/Malamud Award for short ... optimization. It's a nice change to be reading and writing so much, but we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain, I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is ... to ROCK. I hope you are prepared. =) Also, I found this article today

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for many of MIT's underrepresented minority students. OME's mission is to ... society. Matriculation to one of the world’s top schools of science and
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  my old Baker House housemate, who was a Sequence Supervisor for special ... also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... ," is signed "Rebel Scum." A dozen donuts were also left at the scene for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... Chiara Coletti, a vice president. Hmm... it will be interesting to see how ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  been a part of the Center for Civic Media...just having the freedom to ... Center for Civic Media definitely orients me to [say], "This is not just a ... $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the ... freaking cool, we were able to get it rescheduled for this fall. It's been ... really symbolic, not only for me but for a lot of MIT students. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some ... . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems ... ) is swapped between the two systems. I happen to be planning a massive

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  , with a special attachment to stick on top of a hose. Some background on ... SM '78 MBA '98 has been onboard the station for a while now, and just ... film "Giant Leaps," produced for the Giant Leaps Symposium: It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009