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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... in the air. ''One idea was encryption," he says. ''The other was to ... technology in clever ways to preserve our shared past. [Read the entire column

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every ... hanging out in the floor lounge since then, trying to do some programming ... for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit ... in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of ... Mass Ave, practically in view of home...and then I got distracted by the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  knock on the glass--you don't have to open the door for them in this case ... 're here to visit, and log their name in the visitor guide. I have to admit ... needs to get into Burton-Conner. 3. Restock paper in the dorm printer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  established at the Institute in 29 years. MIT is the first university in the ... paired on the same subcommittee today. In other news, while we were in ... major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  look who i found in vienna hi joon

  

  [annotation note = "joon looks much more aesthetic than i did in my picture jesus"][/annotation][annotation note = "in case you were wondering this is true outside of pictures as well"][/annotation]

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... in the eye and saying "What do you do for fun around here?" It caught ... I can spend 16 hours straight in the shop soldering my PCB boards* and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  like someone asking, "So, how's the oxygen situation in Cambridge? Is ... woman is that all the chairs in the microscope room in my lab are too short for me to see into the eyepiece. And all the coats in the mouse room

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  substantial time to process all of these forms that come in right at the ... Happy November 1, Early Action applicants! Today is the day that, if ... app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  knowledge that MIT is the place for you, be sure to give other schools a fair ... after the musical is Meet the Bloggers, at 8:30 PM in the Student Center ... nitrogen ice cream. CPW apparently is one of the best times of the year - as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  that recruiting season is so early in the semester, but at this point I ... 're trying to narrow down potential options. 4) Career fair This is the ... in the semester when everything else is suddenly picking up and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... for a thesis. This is the reason, if you were unlucky enough to see my ... the last twelve weeks and is now extremely full, I forgot to take a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to ... confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  today. note the red sweater[/caption] It is very wild to think that it ... outline that might be colored in one day. It is even more wild to consider ... Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  tell you... 1) They're going to start mailing them in the next few days ... by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke with my friend who works in that office, however, who showed me the

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  have to step-up to the plate and complete it! For the skeptics (and photo ... Ring Delivery, we went to the Top of the Hub for some cookies and a good ... lectures to the MIT community. For example, this weekend I saw Paris, Je T

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  Building to my UROP in building 18 (oh look, it's that map again- the Green Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell ... ridiculously quickly, but this is now on the Dot outside the Green Building

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  was booked all morning so i scheduled an appointment at 3:15 in the afternoon. then i walked down newbury street from mass ave to the library and then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... , that she would make for me and serve hot. She soaked the dried beans in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  whole other blog) and if this course is to be believed, the Germans spend ... , you can apply it to the magnitude of abstraction you take in a subject ... The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010