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• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a ... .S. resident residing in the United States. There is no minimum age for ... in a home environment. By extrapolating human consumption and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor ... Nobel week is always an exciting time around MIT. Bryan and Matt have done a great job documenting Professor Schrock's Nobel prize. On Monday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... a rage comic. Maybe you will too. And if so, you can join me in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  for Admitted Students. Although a lot of my time is spent preparing for ... and spend a bit of the afternoon in the home of a wonderful MIT Alum ... information and RSVP if requested. There is a whole MIT community that cannot

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  out how to make my Guitar Hero guitar work as a MIDI controller, just ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a ... In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  There was a nice article in yesterday's Boston Globe about the ... Brain and Cognitive Sciences: The disorder is complex, both in its genes ... building is a plan to try to combine brain-scanning with genetics to figure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched the Maker Portfolio, Dawn gave a talk at Maker Faire Bay Area about how ... We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should ... complete the form and submit it by April 25, 2014. In the meantime, be sure to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... , according to Google Analytics, but no one is commenting, so here's a place to ... to drive up to a meeting in a few hours, and I've got a sprint

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  at MIT realize that a zombie invasion is a serious threat, one that ... threat and are confused by the need for a chainsaw in a box. They will be ... . . . why would there be a chainsaw in building 16? Sure, it's heavily

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... comprised of only single occupancy rooms, West is a mix of singles, doubles, and triples, and the Annex is a fairly recent addition to Mc

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  friends here at MIT who take care of me in times of ups and downs; there is ... such a great time here. My name is Kenny Lam, and I'm a current ... community in a brand new way. I've taken this opportunity with my brotherhood

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  a fair price for their work, at least double the price they obtain in ... . "Similar to a pencil in size and ease of use, the device enables Braille ... In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , repositions itself, and eventually comes to rest in a place far enough away from ... alarm sounds a second time. A built-in microprocessor randomly programs ... Terrafugia, led by Carl Dietrich '99, is building a flying car (or, more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2 ... looking pretty busy (but in a very good way). Here's a preview of just some ... community. I've been sitting in on meetings, just for fun, and it's been a

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... . Check out the "build challenge," which is used as a big collaboration activity ... creativity, product design, teamwork, and working within a budget in a unifying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• 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 ... country in Idaho, Chris Peterson was witnessing a total solar eclipse ... .   Danny B.D. '15 and his dad, at a rest stop in Wyoming, built a

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

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  CURIOUS IN A BLOG POST? game) I will write up an explanation below. In the ... looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location ... green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... to the class, and a guy at pika read aloud in its entirety to an eager

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013