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• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the ... course of the semester, I finished it later and later. First it was done at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all ... magazine article that one of the admissions counselors had found. The article

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool ... engines and ran them at the same time: [] Here are some examples of pretty ... : [] LEDs mounted on the flywheel with a battery: [] Below are examples of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... few flights of stairs) - you know, the usual. I'd say you've been ... ..., by Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America. The book goes through

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  pictures of my friends. (Hi, Sam.) What made this different from all the ... interesting to see not just what people do over the course of a typical day, but ... all the time. Or the pattern of the splatter paint on the walls of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  much in the way of good professional sports teams - it's mostly the ... 's even more exciting when the team is winning. The night of the seventh ... when the Sox won, a massive crowd of people left Burton 3rd and went down

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  What: Battle of the Bands When: Saturday of CPW (April 8th). Doors ... Floor of the Student Center Who: YOU! Battle of the Bands will be a ... part about the refund is a lie, but the rest of it is all true.) There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  admitted to the Class of 2011. If there's one in your area, you should check ... all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few of the parties around the country: one a day for the next week. (This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the Ivy ... -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the purposes of this conference, as the Ivies + Stanford + MIT. The Ivy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a ... Pizza." Now I'm not sure if it's because of the color or because of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... had been given a Director’s Grant from the Council of the Arts, as ... the scene. The table, first of all, had to be made. We used a roll of

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality. Most of the time, the issue was due to my own ineptitude, but the fact ... ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began ... by Dr. Roderic Ivan Pettigrew, the director of the National Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events--skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... of the blogs have illustrated, school is often exciting, but when the ... GRTs on my floor - hereon refered to as B1 (Burton 1, first floor of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Friday evening was the unveiling of the Class of 2009 Brass Rat. Ring Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT ... , or might even be in the process of picking one out right now. If yours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but independent ... idea," he whispered back. In 1982, Fink became a founding member of the ... program informed me of the existence of the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009