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• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  just a sampling of groups at MIT, and don't forget that a lot of the cool ... I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week ... row asked me what else you could do in labs besides classes and UROP. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... that he'd be down at the end of the 3rd floor of building 8, so I met up ... if it comes from a box or consists only of taco meat and cheddar cheese

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  residents of Floor Pi. At one point, we were large enough that a team called ... screen, so you can look at the list of puzzles and view how far people are ... . Reading the text in the beginning of the puzzle hints at putting together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many of you probably have been playing an instrument for years or ... and what you’re good at. It’s been almost two decades so

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  gear. If you truly have no idea what I mean, we here at the ONLY institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before all this, (or at the same time if you're Dr. Manhattan) the graph of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... taste of what I’ve done. [caption id="attachment_85363" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken ... Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at ... easily repeated. At the end of the class, we had to make five tens of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of ... Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... longer -- if we don't have it at that point, you'll get an email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of ... , I'm kind of running around because I'm jet-lagged like crazy (Adam and I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  to snap these photos, I was placed right at the back of the ballroom ... laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the ... training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  some of the world's more pressing issues (at least with regard to America ... Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  of the Amazon women. Hmm... amazon.com maybe? MAP: START HERE (at the ... . Let me know what you think of the puzzle. Too hard, too easy, too short, too long? And later tonight, get the exciting story of how I braved

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I smile a little at the family-unit-energy of everyone running around ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... , they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  here at MIT, as well as some of the incredible feats of engineering ... of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no exception.  The alumni told stories of the wondrous pranks and adventures they

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  . "What if I have a beard tan line?". At the end of the week though, the ... November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  -what-awesome-thing-happened-to-me-lately!” theme of this blog post. Life at MIT is awesome, but on a fundamental ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... that, I think, is the difference: there are so few tests at MIT that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  you decide to come here next year: most of the events at MIT have free ... 've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were out of your houses (MIT pre-frosh are busy people, apparently). So if I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008