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• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  : Last night, LSC hosted the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, who came to MIT ... concert. Mythbusters on stage. Now, what you might not know is that the Mythbusters are not foreign to MIT. (Hops into Time Machine) The year was 2005

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... my season pass the first day I had it; I just never asked to go back ... WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  the one purchased. Or they could. To paraphrase: "We'll arrive in time ... delayed indefinitely. Even in the rare event that the airline is giving out ... In America Site. The idea is that every throws in their ideas, then

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all ... popular venues for such events is the Hatch Shell. Not only does the Hatch Shell play host to the Boston Pops on July 4th, but it also plays host to

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is well known in ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... stressful competition to get into an elite school is harming young people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  best cafe in boston. Lo and behold, it is in fact the best coffee you ... want to. You can wake up without a blaring alarm, note the snow out the window and decide to sleep for another hour. And when that hour is up, you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  applications. One exercise is that we will discuss the same three folders that we ... I must say I'm very excited to be starting the application reading ... serious reading. In the meantime, we'll contnue with our other work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  week and is open to people of all levels. Jason Ku, the president of the ... the publicity chair (my former TA), Brian Chan, is a graduate student in ... . For instance, two weeks ago, I opened the door to room 3-343 expecting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  well. What is the nerdiest creative project you've ever had to do? ... Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... in the darkroom have carried over to lab classes in my major; sometimes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes ... achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted ... record: There is no guaranteed way to be admitted to MIT. Certainly, it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of ... so we can use conservation of energy. Everything in orange is energy

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  the transfer students we are able to admit. And of course, like in our ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted students choose to enroll by the May 1 deadline. After that time, we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics ... , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT Economics Professor Daron Acemoglu. The Clark Medal is awarded every two years

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and ... of Drop Date is the Baker House Piano Drop. According to The Tech ... One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring

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

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  in the arts faculty that I finally decided to check it out and squeeze ... creation of plays about science in addition to discussing the cultural impact ... required to play more than one role; in the case of Truth Values, Ms. De Cari

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  Laverde's all the time. I'll be continuing to work in my undergrad lab full ... go on a vacation to the Bahamas (yessss). Adam is less excited about ... masters in aero/astro. He and I are moving into Westgate, which is an MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  bacterial colonies makes me want to shoot myself in the face. (Speaking of my ... class in the morning. I am not one of those people. My name is Keri ... without including the word "I," to compensate for its overuse in this one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the ... special to me. The feeling of connection is a bit more complex. When I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006