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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  Jamaica Pond, I spent an afternoon in the pottery studio.   In ... A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the Infinite. MIT SAFER^2 was advertising a "One Night Stand for Student Rights

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  things I've done thus far for IAP not necessarily in chronological order ... places in Boston (EDIT: an important "at" was omitted leaving it to appear ... . Played in the snow. 12. Played in the snow. 13. Stayed up all night for fun

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  about the teacher in Colorado who was suspended for his remarks in the ... right political debate. It's just not appropriate for an MIT admissions ... thinking for themselves and coming to their own conclusions. In that light

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  next age, why put them in a sterile box? Aren't we all supposed to ... take a tour of some of MIT's greatest works of student art, found in ... —our dorm has a certain amount of funding set aside for student painting

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  2010, I'd like to take an opportunity to thank the many awesome faculty ... professors assist in choosing the class. In previous years, these faculty ... in the Boston Globe a week ago. Check it out: ...Sadoway, a professor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  : [MIT students] Subject: Candle-light Vigil for the Earthquake Victims in ... Victims in South Asia Come show your support for the Earthquake Victims in ... Pakistan have been wiped out. Pakistan faces an enormous challenge in terms

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  (1995), Dance for Two (1996), or Reunion (2003). In 2002, he cofounded the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing and is now an adjunct professor ... journalism at Fordham University in New York City. It was an interesting panel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... design.  In the form of a limerick. Mine was: I'd say that design is an ... weeks, we've been engaging in ideating, a fancy word for "trying to think

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... , Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... country in Idaho, Chris Peterson was witnessing a total solar eclipse

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  , Acting Director of ICE Ken Cuccinelli said, in an interview, that this ... finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  man reading the words, but then, in retrospect the prize for first place ... never really forgave myself for that day back in 1996, and it's probably a ... best accomplished in my opinion by getting a PhD. So as I look on

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  swimmingly; for example, we had a great discussion in 7.31 (Current Topics in ... Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Physics, take the first 8.012 test, decide to major in Literature, pull an ... , take an introductory programming class, decide to major in Course 6, go ... going home for Thanksgiving. -Understand gyroscopes. -Take a quiz in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  my ticket validated for the next day and hopped in a taxi bound for my ... was finally completed in 1994 after decades of blunders in planning, and at fifty kilometers, it's the second-longest rail tunnel in the world

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how ... , which just about covered an entire 24x36in cardboard sheet. I filled the ... neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Khademhosseini knew from an early age that he wanted to be a bioengineer. In fact ... The debate over nature versus nurture has raged on for decades, but ... . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  present for this example anticipated where it was going and CHIMED IN ... groups is all the items that fall in both groups. For example, apples are ... There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  for the first time ever in my 3+ years here. The early ... , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... ="tfw your boyfriend had Cheers playing in the background for the entire month

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  in the mail; you'll wait for your decision in the good old US Mail. It ... I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... they're called that). For the next month, the admissions staff will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004