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• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Bridge Reception to be held on April 12, 2013 from 6:30pm-8:00pm in W20-301. Current MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be meeting you! In fact, they are so excited to meet you that we would like to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant ... President Rafael Reif accepted the invitation to the snowball fight, though I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... 't have a dining plan, so it's up to the residents to feed ourselves ... through being the chef. It's the chef's job to 1. Come up with a menu, which

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  wall makes me feel old. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ... weather is changing in my knees. Also I'm cranky and like to talk about the ... was on TV: But if you aren't so lucky to be so old as I am, MIT's Age

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  will not link to here.) The folks at PBS's Nova have been producing a ... & Engineers. A now, the producers have shown the good sense to ... , and really important, research work. Would you like to hear the short

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ) because there are research opportunities year-round, and we get to meet ... that is starting to change. Shhhh, listen! Put your ear to your favorite

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... : never delete your Public. NEVER DELETE YOUR PUBLIC. If you are trying to ... has taken me two months to figure out how to fix my broken blog. I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much” once I finish therapy. *Recently, someone I was talking to managed to ... , vernacular magic. Anyway, back to how much my week sucked. Three weeks, 13

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start ... moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down! But back to ... so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to ... . From now on, I'll have to stop promising to come back regularly - you'll just have to trust me that these sporadic blog entries will come back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the ... , and what should the United States do to solve it?" Two fellow bloggers ... producer at the History Channel happened to read it, contacted Zahir, and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  semester dreaming of how the camera would look like--promising myself to ... anything else done. But, of course, as soon as classes ended I set to work ... be there to help you along the way. Needless to say I had no idea what

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  When I came back to England from Easter vacation, I was greeted by ... than that. If anyone has anything to add, feel free to enlighten the rest of us in the comments below. Anyway, I was pretty curious to see what

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  , doesn't see the zombies as a threat, forcing hackers to help protect the ... convenient and easily accessible form of defense. Some are oblivious to the ... the first to go come the zompocalypse. Seeing this got me thinking

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day). After working for 3 hours I decided to study for my 18.03 test that I had ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for ... colleagues in Admissions will be happy to help you. And not 24 hours after I return from Italy, I'm on another plane, this one to San Francisco, where I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  "Buddy Holly" to Weezer. Yesterday I met three people who did not know who ... themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... I've got this term is 6.003: Signals and Systems. And, to be honest, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006