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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  world would come to a screeching halt. I think of all this tonight ... film for numerous uses in the typical laboratory including the typical ... time, no possibility for the making of the product in any other thickness

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

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  in the snow in Killian Court. This year, it was a completely different story. If President Hockfield and Casey were playing in Killian today, there would have been no need for the winter jackets, or any jacket

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  currently in print.) "I just think it's not very empowering, you know? It ... I walked through the front door of my local Barnes and Noble today ... , it was halfway through that book when I finally couldn't take any more

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this ... Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and ... TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to ... : mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from our friend Randall Munroe. I like the last panel, personally.

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is ... .) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing ... . Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  really fricking needed to study. So I put in a load of laundry (a more ... I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... , but we still call it Dead Week, and I'd say we manage to cram about a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Nights) but still. You can imagine how therapeutic it was. A week ago, I ... . On Thursday, I was about to scan and e-mail in an application form for ... . Um. AHHHH! I freaked, ran to his office, only to learn that he was in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  onslaught of folks that would be coming in. I worked with five or six other ... On November 20th in [annotation note="a lecture hall"]26 ... on, it turned out that MIT was also in talks with Disney for a general

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  profound blog post, so I’ll go ahead and zoom in on some the crazy things ... , but right there in one plate I’ve covered 3 groups on the food pyramid ... obviously, I was desperately trying to pack in as many food groups as I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  waving my hands around in the air. But from my point of view, I'm moving ... BeaconStreet, all of which are organizations I've volunteered for in the past before I ... objects onto the real world. And it's pretty freaking cool. I've been

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  see how well that works. I used to hear that cooking is just applied ... I made this at 2:00 AM and left it to chill in the fridge overnight ... 's Mom and I have baked four award-winning nut rolls, a tradition that we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  short stories; I tend to story-build in such a way that I gravitate toward longer works. I encourage all those who are interested in writing, and ... write. That is, there are many people who are interested in writing. A lot

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in ... spirit. Why yes, it is my 19th birthday. How’d you know? While true, that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  years, there have been 89 30 Under 30 MIT alumni. I was interested in knowing how what industries Forbes thinks MIT is innovating the most, so I marked down which category each alum was in. (I'm taking Stats this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  intermittently ever since IAP. In fact, I was able to get a taste of neuroscience ... relocating to Boston College over the summer, I've had my hands full in chasing ... I find another UROP? Will I be working in a Brain and Cognitive

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... Institvte-wide snowball fight study break in Killian Court? I'm told ... that I hate the word "epic" but still used it should tell you how epic it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. How ... in my Boston experience, I walked around for 5 minutes and did not find ... that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page ... room is in the basement and doesn't have the greatest lighting- so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  graduate application process, mimics this transition in a way. We first would ... four years ago when we were seniors in high school, and we're sure many ... , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019