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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  , is the first person in his family to attend college. A graduate of MIT ... accomplishment are already evident in the class: Sarah Dupuis of New Preston, Conn ... will change the world. Hailing from Moraga, Calif., Bjornson-Hooper is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  ?). Early this morning, some friends and I went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History We went mainly to see the Blaschka Glass Flowers ... (independently) were expecting glass flowers like at the Bellagio. Not so much

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  bizarre thing to get used to. But in addition to the people I met from ... liberal-artsyness is still intact even after coming to the institvte). I ... and class to go to. In the meantime, tell me what you guys want to know

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... win!) in Tucson next April. And late last week, the entire Aero ... students looking up to them from the audience. Then Michael Collins stands up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this ... so much for taking the time and effort to apply. Writing for an ... After much deliberation over the 66 applications we received this

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  screwed as I thought I was. To celebrate w/ me is the MIT cheerleading squad ... I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  the most time-efficient way to consume Helth.   Shrimp Scampi I ... in, honestly. Shakshuka   This has got to be one of the ... an alternative to pressing the water out of tofu with a heavy object is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Transnational Cultures. Video of the latter is available in the Language Learning ... ; Ashima's first years of marriage in America; the Ganguli's trip to India ... Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal ... vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of ... So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area ... 180. The interviews, the formalities, the waiting in line to talk to a ... began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  is to please be patient as you watch the application tracking system on ... is more than 40,000 application pieces to be processed in a very brief ... As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  colleague in London who studied the Y chromosomes of ancient Britains to infer ... something, because everyone else in the room went "mmmm!" very sagely, to ... site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  . For example, last week, some people constructed the following to ... "hacks" (if you can call it that) occured on May 20th, 2004 -- right in the ... his true actions: designing, building, and executing the most

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  Infinite Corridor is perhaps too aptly named... After finding the Wikipedia-styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many ... stepping down from the position. (I managed to cite my source there, at least

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ... from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• 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

  

  but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... Bostonian perspective to try to extend the Boston sort of consciousness out in ... This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas ... , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... of the week's events; read/watch this if you want to know more about

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not admitted

  

  This year was the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting fewer than 13% of applicants means we had to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  final show, where the viewers have to call in their votes. It would be ... to vote! The judges have chosen the six finalists, and the race is on ... . The advantage to the device is that it activates by just pushing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007