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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... didn't stick around to find out. Upon reaching said class, our teacher entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... . This happens. We have not yet begun to review partial applications, and ... information upon which to render that decision. That said, you should move

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... local activist groups and residents, he hopes to empower people to monitor ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  . One spoonful of corn chowder was allotted to each resident, provided ... should be plenty to feed the 14-person floor for the next week or so. Paul ... tablespoon and subsequently switching to teaspoons whose volume capacity

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically. PhD Comics Can't believe I originally forgot this gem! Called to my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most ... 's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between ... like "duel enrollment" courses. Perhaps these students are preparing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... 'm Kimd when it comes to admissions blogging, since there's another Kim. As ... as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive. Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... and head-scratching, because we were able to put them to good use. Also ... Rush. You have to look kind of closely to see him in this picture though

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my ... generally difficult to schedule events that everyone can attend. The turn ... included scavenger hunts, improv skits (apparently I’m hard to make fun of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... to 1.5 million things per day. Which is why this entry is short. Sanja said: I think I would just die if I were you... No, really, just to stand

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  our salvation," Rindone plans to remind his varied group of fellow seniors. "The fact is our high school memories are going to be very ... , Rindone said his parents, David and Patricia, urged him to set lofty goals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  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 ... Hockfield: Other attendees (according to my handy RSVP list; it was too

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  new grad they’ve ever hired, so when I found out they were going to have ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My first month-and-a-bit was spent building a custom charting package to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  resolution to cook dinner every night? Well, I did it!* *Okay, I mostly did it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center ... carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  vicious attack. Not to be deterred or beaten down, a recovery mission was dispatched to the snowman to assess the damage and administer any treatments ... traffic cone was deemed suitable. A message, addressed to the Anti

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009