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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in. So when I saw a headline about a professor inventing a real DEATH RAY, I didn't figure it would be a real article about MIT. I was wrong. An excerpt: David Wallace, an MIT mechanical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  wayyyy too early (anything pre-December is too early in my book, in case you were wondering). This year I was far more concerned with all the ... favorite parts of the holiday, I set a bowl outside my door and kept it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  of Ecuador. Theories about why I was in Ecuador? Study ... I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more ... : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... order them on Amazon. I decided that it was either time to invest in a ... look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some reason, I assumed that holding a camera and walking around campus would ... -processing software couldn't save me; I spent a couple hours trying to stabilize the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... a decision, or you haven't even applied, I'd prefer if you stuck to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  Arts (i.e. $75,000 cash prize and on-campus residency). In addition, he ... . As you might have known, I am a violinist in MITSO, and I experienced his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  're all feeling good about the past week's work. I'll post something longer in the next few days; in the meantime I really need to say something ... Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  yesterday. And September is also pretty much over, which shows just how quickly MIT is zipping on by.   During last year's Career Fair, I ... was either thrown away or became junk clutter, so I consciously didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  entire entry. But I got your attention, right? So, as I reported in my last entry, my New Year's Eve plans included sitting in my living room ... consuming large amounts of junk food. Well, that was the plan, and we did in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... stopped -- i have learned SO MUCH about real-world programming in the past ... the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  ??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you ... Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from ... set foot in Simmons was during CPW when I was given a tour around the ... college is quirky than by saying you live in a triangle? I had the room for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  Development Lab (D-Lab), the class in which we made charcoal and through which I ... school in a city that is a hub of so much intellectual activity. (And I don ... I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  to a motor and it reacts to a light sensor. So cute in fact, that I ... , I met up with my family at Border Cafe in Harvard Square, along with ... Committee in the 26-100 lecture hall. Along the way, my brothers and I were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  the US tied with Italy 1-1 in the first round of the tournament, I think ... with history, and I want to get back and see the 99% of the sights that I missed during our 36-hour stay. I was personally rooting for France, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the ... will be the questions that I answer first.   Finally (for this

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... to Threes by Asher Vollmer. You can also play the game at the original

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  For $35 to $250 per square centimeter, you can have your name written ... unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006