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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to ... found himself stricken with a case of influenza, exhibiting such symptoms as nasal congestion, a sore throat, and a mild fever. So, he called up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a double-major in 7A ... , writing and editing science content for the show, but a few days ago she went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will be a little while until all the dust settles and we can tell you more ... ! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  From Wednesday's faculty meeting... Motion for a Bachelor of Science (S.B.) in Biological Engineering Moved, that the Faculty approves the ... will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  regular term classes has officially come to an end. My glasses could use a cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  EST to answer all of your questions about MIT in gory detail. What's going on? At CollegeWeek Live! you all can participate in a real-time, 2 ... as a live version of the MIT blogs. I'm working the MIT booth tonight

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 3

  

  friends, including one who was in town because he's coaching a team for the ... finished off the gaming with the classic Settlers of Catan. All in all, a great break from the selection committee. Even though it's a "three day

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT football team completed its historic regular season with a 24-13 victory over ... -game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  certification (I'm now a certified EMT in the state of Massachusetts, which makes ... So supposedly, there's a weather machine that comes around every CPW ... , its timing was off by a week, but fortunately (for me, not for you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we've sent, or otherwise affirmed your interest in MIT, you will receive an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or squandered time, but it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of ... be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of ... ' Guild). Unfortunately, I'm hosed and indecisive. Conveniently, I have a blog (and a penchant for adverbs). This calls for crowdsourcing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  have a *great* view from my window in lab. Until 9:57 AM: Finite element modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10 ... Student Center for a glazed stick. 11:25 - 12:54 PM: Party in lab where by

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  on Pi Day, at Tau Time (that is tomorrow, March 14, at 6:28pm EDT ... , check out this video from Vi Hart: (Did you know that Vi Hart is Khan ... 60 Minutes?) What do you think?  Are you sold on Tau?  Or are you a Pi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  knew it was somewhere in my bag and so I stood, flipping through a never ... . Ten people that stopped in their lives to help a disoriented, highly ... . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019