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• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  . =) So, here's the deal: Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby ... . They'll also receive the support of a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen high-profile NGOs. In short, the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  entitles Everybody Loves A Math Joke is now the most popular post ever on the ... A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I ... Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  [ETA] THIS ARTICLE IS NOT TRUE. It's a joke created by The Tech ... the SATs (just by putting your name on it) is a 600, combined. My point is, don't take this seriously. Read it with a sense of humor. Call your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... year. Our yield was simply too high - unprecedented, as a matter of fact ... convinced that we'd have to admit at least a few from the waitlist. I was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  and comments. Changed the URL to 3-107.com, which is a lot easier to ... Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... treadmill. And the world is a better place for it. ... treadmill" is the straightest path through MIT. It means doing the basic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee ... awkwardly on the side taking a picture; the camera's hiding my face. harhar) Basically, there's a camera somewhere recording students going through the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I ... . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  Terrafugia, led by Carl Dietrich '99, is building a flying car (or, more ... ’s visibility is impaired when the wings are folded up, a tiny camera system ... field. The Bhutan book is a byproduct of four such trips from 1988 to 2002

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  . For one thing, the weekend is not planned out for you, it's more of a ... span of 4 days!). And, while there will be parties, CPW is a 100% dry ... It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  , however, is still made just off MIT's campus, and it is a nice treat to ... ? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class? Check. And a serenade? Check! Thanks to our secret admirers, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  review over the weekend. Despite the fact that I'm a fairly new reader, I ... " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was ... is completely true: we are indeed looking for human beings in every

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MTB Party Pic & TechTV CPW Coverage Some fun ways to remember the weekend...

  

  Hi folks, It was truly AWESOME to spend lots of time with all of you this past weekend. I hope you guys had as much fun as I did! A quick update before I depart for a few days of vacation... First, a big thanks to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  . Unfortunately, matting is perhaps the most stressful thing a photographer can do ... , and I'm all done. The gallery is a constant work-in-progress. Sam Magee ... 's still a lot left to be wanted. Nevertheless, the space is in high demand

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  naked velocity. It's dark and the asphalt is a gooey chocolatey blur ... -crushing death is sitting somewhere with me in the toddler basket of a supermarket ... recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  my kitchen, which is what happened a couple of weeks ago. I heard an ... doing. Sam '07 wrote a nice entry about this experience here. This year Burton-Conner has been fairly lucky. As a dorm we're only had about 5 fire

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  graduation requirements by spending time abroad. One such class is 11 ... to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... topics are compared and contrasted with characteristics of a U.S. city

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  Now that CPW is over, things are a little less hectic around the ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this ... the other hand, said "no photos" but lingered for quite a while--what is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world ... check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of ZigZag, hosted by Marsha. There's a nice piece about MIT research on more energy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006