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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a ... about his barber, who discouraged a young Nimoy from pursuing a career in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed ... time on a campus tour or during CPW (for those of you attending-I hope ... of doing majors) for you to choose from. Can you guess which ones have

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  ’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays ... . I’m considering staying for a master’s degree. To decide is to walk ... i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  traffic. I was headed to alewife, where I would fetch my car for the ... to follow -- after a man's death, and I heard them praise him for his ... 't think the world would be able to separate sin from a sinner. I didn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... receive from the office instructs them to keep an eye out for "delivery owls," a fairly obvious nod to Hedwig et al from Harry Potter. A few years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  we hit the town, where I got to see a lot of my old pals from the ... 's funny - as soon as I'm away from home my body reverts. Maybe I'm a vampire ... for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  after learning about it from my friends, I thought it would have been a ... completely different location, this was a great experience for me since it can ... program at MIT, and I myself got to know the program a little as their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from ... go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  a staple for the part of China my dad is from. The food was great, but ... was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was ... another helping of rice and curry. I ran into Ali, a postdoc that I’ve been

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  I can't believe I've been blogging as an admissions officer at MIT for 9 years.  Over that time, I've periodically opened ... a long, philosophcal answer are not ideal for this format

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... incomplete list of builders is here. Here are a few pictures I took for their ... Ideas Contest. Click around on there I don't think it's a secret. Two

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  Registration Day for MIT students (the official start of the new academic year) I figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... at MIT, I wish you the best of luck. It's a fabulous place, and I hope

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  that are on campus. If you love to sing and dance, there's a group for that! If you like playing Starcraft, there's a club for that! If you enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee, there's a team for that! I can pretty much

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  instructions 2) I've setup a WeMo Switch connected to IFTTT so I can turn on my air conditioner with a text message from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things:  1) I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  being contacted by a wireless host called MCDONALDS. Yeah, I can't really ... Scrubs" now, in this McDonalds in Marseille where you can order a Croque Mc ... into a never-ending search for free wireless access. Today that came in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  .042 (Math for Computer Science) is a really interesting class. I guess the ... for pronunciations is called a schwa? I sure didn't before taking this ... I took last semester, archery is a really good activity for meditation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  for a few years after I came to MIT. He was a great resource for me ... the process and beyond. The best advice I can give you for the interview ... heard back from them, don't worry. Give your EC at least a few days to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  for which they can care like you would a pet. Amino is developed using ... Gogo page (which I've backed). As someone who keeps a special eye out for ... group with a thesis titled "Amino: a domestic system for synthetic biology

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015