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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  RA Blogger Applications Due Wednesday 9/6 At Noon Extended deadline...

  

  forgot to remind you, so I've extended the deadline. :-) If you wish to be ... decisions by early next week, but the first priority is launching the new site, so we may be off by a few days. -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  work in any particular group, so if you're not having a good time, it ... Physics Students. (The picture is of a snow crystal, taken in a low ... at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  , and is consistent with a set of key principles, including non ... a living person or group engaged in what we believe is extraordinary ... figures who work with and against institutions that order society. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ... from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which ... spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of ... ! While you wait... Jenny recently blogged about CSC banquet. She showed you the end of the show...and here is how we kicked off the beginning of the

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  embarks on a new journey. We'll miss you, Ben. ... As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a ... you're reading this site right now, odds are Ben has touched your life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  near future - it'll take me a few days to remember what it is that I ... I am back in the office, did you miss me? :-) St. John was awesome, but not as awesome as MIT. Consider the evidence: Sigh. But a week

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  ... but it turns out that tonight, 2 AM is really 1 AM again (blast you ... because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... West Campus tried to take it down: and this is a very exhausted me

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• FAQ / Afford

  What is need-blind admissions?

  MIT's need-blind admissions process ensures that you will not be disadvantaged in the admissions process because of your financial need. Our admissions process is need-blind for all students, foreign and domestic.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . CourseRoad is a wonderful tool because it lets you toy with alternate ... . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... CourseRoad is right for you!

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  , rendered immobile. putting a pet down is a decision that's awful beyond ... every member of my family. losing a pet is never easy, but I'm fortunate ... friends has helped. there have been a lot of fun events, including my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  internship, so I shouldn't really be writing an entry, and I definitely can ... fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And ... , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  are equipped with muscles that they need to walk, all they need is a ... mechanical robot with a controller that uses a learning program, the robot can ... she is working in a cognitive science lab. She came to MIT to do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  A week and a day ago, roughly 7:30 pm: Me: Hi Mom! Sorry I haven’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You sound really sick. Me: Yeah… Mom: Have you been taking your Flintstones

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  rediscovering the meaning of the word “passion”. You see, when you’re playing a piece, you have a sheet of paper in front of you in black and white. You ... 5 measures of rest” or you could add some color, and play a part “as

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline please check MyMIT

  

  Hi all- This is a quick update for our Early Action applicants ... a direct message from us. If you have missing components, don ... everything into our system. If you have applied to us Early Action, please

  • by Kris Guay
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  is hard (and so are applications!), so we're more than honored that you ... ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado ... a Victorian woman but now creates chaotic Google Docs at 2AM (though

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hosts the fall career fair. This is a pretty big deal at MIT, where all ... fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a ... used Handshake, a lot, which is a system that colleges use to help their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020