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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  to accompany the visuals. What drew such large crowds for this ... year” to attend. The Alloy Orchestra, based here in Cambridge, is ... accompaniments to several classic silent films such as F. W. Murnau’s

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  admissions staff, it allows students to experience all the best parts of an MIT ... Game, you will be able to participate in all the most important aspects ... ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get back to me). Anyway, at this point, there is really no place for the snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution, and yet she was willing to sit down with the six of us - relative novices in matters relating to the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston ... weather attempts to dampen our moods, campus-wide excitement will not be ... Freshman Pre-Orientation Program, and was so excited to explore MIT for a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last 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

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

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night ... , and their soldering irons to strum their guitars; beat on their drums

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  available to admitted students, including: Campus Preview Weekend ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book ... your classmates have checked in to introduce themselves. Since only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  over to the Bush Room to join several other MIT students in calling youuu: the RA admits! I think I got to call and congratulate about fifteen or ... people :( Since I'm from the Houston area, I begged Matt to let me call

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  people who manage to struggle through their exams and psets and still put ... incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT ... at the process of bringing our collective baby, Richard III to the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... , or the exam that tests your ability to choose correct responses to 144 ... the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... -2010 academic year was pretty exciting to me. But not nearly as exciting as

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to ... Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... . They then start to integrate graduate-level courses with their regular

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  , MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... afford to treat myself to quality relaxation time, so I spend half an hour

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... , next to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (with the enviable name ... back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  really want you guys to like MIT and appreciate all the things it can do ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... two PSETs due on Wednesday) or about how long days can be (9 AM to 10 PM

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely ... it came right down to the wire. We were frantically solving puzzles as ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008