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  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  -called important people in the show business pass out little men and women to those who they think did a good job at making movies and TV shows in the year before. I decided to do the same thing for all the movies/shows I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  If you're considering MIT, you probably like to build things. Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... local ABC affiliate, boston.com, and Reddit. In light of these events, MIT has cancelled classes today, and is urging employees to stay home

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  .311 is the continuous version). In this class, the tests are deliberately made very difficult, but we can earn back up to half the points we lost ... -10 page (it ended up being 8 pages) paper due in 17.405, which is Politics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... interactive puzzle adventure that you do in teams where you go from room to room ... Now everyone raise your hands if you used to watch Saturday morning

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... to turn in psets. Leaving the lounge at bedtime is the hardest part of ... really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to ... , regularly heads down to a warehouse in Lawrence that's chock-full of ... took place in the early nineties. It was meant to motivate us and remind

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  Engine development company, hoping to invest in our own, custom-made comment system. We ... for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... . If you still need help after that, feel free to email us at

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to taste, then snorting said solution up your nose. Fortunately, prior to ... a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the “Snowpocalypse of (dec.) 2010" hit. New Jersey was smack dab in the middle of it ... transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed-in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  discipline, the department has long contributed to learning in the arts and ... was the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science ... Program in Media Arts and Sciences; the Program in Art, Culture, and
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  s, Arrigo Boito, my great-great uncle, was involved heavily in opera. During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... from my 4th floor room in New House (a dorm with no elevator) to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  professor will go back in a different color to a table/chart/cross we ran ... effective when learning, but it does result in me frantically trying to drag ... sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  ;   Ugly Betty I had no interest in this show but my mom told me to ... So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow ... Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  of the following). Option A: In a paragraph or two, describe to us a ... this year's senior bloggers: Laura and Lulu. Our objective will be to ... undergraduates are welcome to apply. We hope to hire 3 incoming freshmen and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  interested in connecting the two, mostly because I wanted to respect some ... besides MITAdmissions.org in case you want to read about science and cats ... Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us ... visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  my literary career. Just in time to introduce you to Random Hall ... decorated like a homeless guy's scrapbook. In addition to the gems below ... It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008