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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  . Miller '07 in the mud pit at Senior Haus' Steer Roast. The match ended in a ... , which people later eat. It has other food, and bands, and two nights of ... , backed up by Campus Police. My good friend Erik '09 was the head of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  , since you're at home not thinking about school work because come on, it ... course of writing this entry (and all I wrote about was something about a ... certification (I'm now a certified EMT in the state of Massachusetts, which makes

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

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape ... humidity are minor concerns. Last night, I ate dinner at a fast food

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have ... some pictures from the MIT Admissions Holiday Party, which we held at ... it out. The requisite embarassing picture of yours truly. Marisa

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  even told it at a Harvard party that we went to, with an audience of ... American Mathematical Society Journal, called Foolproof: A Sampling of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  Episode 10 of MIT's video podcast, ZigZag, has been released. It ... , Weird Al's new video has an MIT mention ("First in my class here at MIT ... valedictorian). Anyway, "White & Nerdy" is a parody of "Ridin'" (Ridin' Dirty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  details to your imagination, for now at least). The picture was taken from ... to the right, you'd see MIT and the Cambridge side of the river), and ... 's Museum of Science, which features a lightning show by the world's largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because ... everything else has been on the back burner. But I got all of your blog applications (thanks!) and I have a file with all of your questions which I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  featuring stories that capture and communicate the richness and diversity of ... Zag evolve through the first four episodes. The good folks at Academic Media ... podcast? What kinds of stories and features would you want to see?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  that its persons of the year are Bill and Melinda Gates and U2's Bono ... Executive Director of the Poverty Action Lab. Bono (above) & Banerjee ... "pranks" I'm not sure how much I agree with the statement that hacks at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  kickoff that started in Kresge. The real fun started at about 5 pm on ... . Some highlights of the event: - spaghetti wrestling - a human hamster ... attending the LuWOW on the West Side Campus, but the weather was kind of gross

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I ... asked by prospective students. What kinds of clubs do we have?  Usually ... and a bit chaotic, but several things were happening at once: my meeting

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  mere 11 minute walk from EC, The Friendly Toast is always at the top of ... there's no doubt they make some of the best sesame chicken I've ever had ... offers some of the best, what I've been told all my life is, Chinese food

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post. NOTE: You needn’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... seriousness, starting a project was kind of a milestone for me in high school

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... that his is actually not three letters and consists of some combination

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

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

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the ... touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the

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

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  -scratch inventions and creations get our attention in the same way that many of those national honors do. Why? Look at MIT's motto, Mens et Manus -- Mind and Hand ... look around MIT for lots of examples of cool projects, like: Disco

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack ... ice cream. It was all quite delicious, even if a certain member of the 224 suite complained that we stole one of their ideas. =P I've been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at ... sending in some of your work. Be sure your standardized test scores have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester ... favorite day of the semester is actually the day they put up the full ... 't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005