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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... orientation events that turned out to be either unrequired or just plain ... would tomorrow lose the ability to put food between slices of bread. “Year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off ... more importantly, and more to the point of this entry, some shirts I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at the Pavilion start ... love creating their own venues for watching the festivities. Thanks to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  consequently her books include countless references to Boston, including MIT ... MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... my neck to see the TV. After a brief introduction, Lahiri began by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I must say though, Cambridge actually has pretty places to take pictures of ... figured I would take some pictures of places that are important to life here

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on ... means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of "higher education" to be truly educated, to approach issues of rampant

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the ... movements they want to experiment with from their own environment and paint

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of ... think make good matches to the undergraduate culture of MIT - academic

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not dropping 18.02, but it was boring. So I deleted it. Don't complain; I ... to read. I will, however, grace you with this: It takes up more

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The ... Triforce was created by three Goddesses to serve as a symbol of their sacred

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  of my dedication to bringing you interesting campus news and rants, I was out there attempting to take pictures at 5AM, while most of you, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  take advantage of their less constrained educational environment to take ... addition to evaluation of the homeschooling portfolio, are very helpful. Some ... , Tanglewood, and Interlochen, among many others) are a great opportunity to work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  . Regardless of what it looks like, this is a tribute to our institute, not a poorly-spelled tribute to Matt McGann. It's Eiffel's fault, not ours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his ... -vehn-se-nup' But given that science likes to redefine itself every so often, it may

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  doesn't look like this: Well I may not go to see the fireworks today ... strangely similar to those for pasta. Bacilli with tomato sauce, anyone? Ok

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 MIT Admissions Statistics Summary statistics from the past year.

  

  summer. I also hope to post an enrolling class profile and more statistics ... ,370 students deferred to regular action 295 deferred applicants admitted during

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  to check out the view from up there. Nice work on ZigZag to producer

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

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  , I'm almost positive that the Princeton Hospital is supposed to be ... -worker is fine, thanks to the wonderful medics and folks in the ER. But more

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in ... for the Dewey furniture survey. (Clearly, I don't have enough work to do

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  , due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to enroll) and a steady class size, we have admitted even fewer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006