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• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  majoring in Course 4: Architecture at MIT (as you know, I eventually received ... completely new cities in China. Holl has begun talking about Simmons Hall ... 's quite dark in here. Anyway, in the slide above, Holl shows the 4 (!) new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... Cheese During in-house rush, I was told that the G unofficially stood for ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  guys; I can only imagine that it's really frustrating and upsetting. Just ... . Unfortunately the picture I took didn't come out too well, but hopefully you can ... a photograph. As I walked into Lobby 7, camera in hand, ready to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask... how are the professors? I know you always have your good ones and your ... people. I actually started writing down things they said in class, because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road. That’s in no small part because I really dislike computer SPAM. We ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I ... -and-coming celebrities; for example, today I met Planet Labs, a start-up in San Francisco ... keep firmly in mind as I go through my four years (+grad school, possibly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  somewhere to be in 45 minutes. I looked inside the new reading room and, you ... stuff, in which you can carry all your other free stuff. In a related ... lab after the career fair, but I saw a poster in Lobby 7 that said

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  scrutinize....I can go on and on. The most enjoyable thing about HASS then, in ... that I can either concentrate in Economics (have to take another class in ... answer." In some regards, I was considering a LAC when I applied to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  how many people came to the event. That way, the next year, we can try ... the recruitment we're doing is working, and how we can potentially ... You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  Scandinavian furniture from your favorite importer... (I got a new bookshelf! I ... your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest ... and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in ... , in a sense, they're both oversold—the truth, I think, is unsatisfying

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... user’s body. It does this in real time and can handle multiple users. The ... used in a myriad of applications. As you can see, the papers we read in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  in general? I have a completely different point of view from those presented in the article, probably as a result of the role models that I have ... just to have you leave a few years later. I know how important it is for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  Logs." I love hilariously ridiculous spoof movies in which you can see ... point out how all of it is the same. Finally (I'm really not going to go ... is not a rule - there are always exceptions, but in general, I think

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  . (I'm still really bitter though. Grr.) Friday, 19:15 In the last 30 ... put it all in a safe place with the operator. I took a picture for your ... highlighters. Sunday, 3:33 I just walked in to HQ and immediately heard, "Laura

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that ... "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is ... October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... you can be the best you can be during your time here. In the end, it ... mistakes and everything was easy, how would we learn? Anyway, I spent A LOT

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  Last night, I attended a concert by the MIT/Wellesley Toons, one of ... divided the lecture hall in half and told us it was time for audience ... great trumpet noises. Can anyone guess what song we were accompanying

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that ... Yesterday, I officially completed the 12-week Summer Undergraduate ... Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005