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• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  starting with mechanical engineering and now going on to PhD programs in ... my personal statement and explain why I want to explore deeper ... piece in a larger puzzle. So as many of you begin to apply to college and

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  to be! Here's some general tips and comments I have about UROP hunting ... that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different ... background, and are willing to help undergrads get the research experience and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  since now which dorm do you want to be in, it's better and easier for you to be able to stay there. And well, it's easier to move your stuff ... demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to ... commitment to the public interest has long defined and inspired our work.  Our ... , and we have worked diligently to identify and engage talented students

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather machine will kick in soon. Have any questions or concerns? Post them and I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group ... up the rest. Oh, yeah, and I have to completely revise a 5 page ... , yeah, and since some other members of my group have chosen to give their

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  and keeps the weekend beautiful throughout the weekend. Unfortunately ... course of writing this entry (and all I wrote about was something about a weather machine. I might have still been asleep for that)(once I fell asleep

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nineteen behavior mice, as I am done testing them and they are to be ... whose major function is to serve as a structural base which recruits and ... kiddie pool of water and teach him that there's a platform he can swim to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Singapore-MIT Alliance?

  SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research center outside the ... postdoctoral associates and graduate students, and collaborate with researchers from universities, research institutes, and industries in Singapore and
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India ... , and I was surprised at the amount of respect the exhibits paid to the ... the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... and intensity, and it's intimidating to be told that by the end of this ... , and trophies to pull. Quickly it becomes apparent that the most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to ... related to human lives and how we might mitigate or combat them with science ... and an all-expenses-paid trip to MIT - to the top three winners. To

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  , and what should the United States do to solve it?" Two fellow bloggers ... producer at the History Channel happened to read it, contacted Zahir, and ... World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Dominican Republic. It was our third visit (click here to see last year's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad

  

  sin un sistema operativo. Después de tres días, a merced de How-To Geek ... . Algunas tiendas, como Best Buy, incluso le devuelven dinero en forma de crédito de ... portátiles en mi carrito de compra en línea de la tienda Best Buy que tenían

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight ... years ago (and I think 2 years before that...), so the Hunt last year was written by them, and they'll be writing next year's hunt too, so it should

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  played were: Stickshifts and Safetybelts, Sheep Go To Heaven, Mexico, The ... event and all proceeds went to the Cambridge YWCA, a shelter for abused women. It was wonderful to see all my sisters and friends perform; some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006