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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the ... expiration. Two years ago, Sam and I visited San Francisco, and had a ton of ... Angeles," and I am so into the theme that I am packing a hiking backpack

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught up in applications that I didn't read Sunday's New York Times, usually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from all backgrounds. We know that while for some students getting into a
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  roommate Mike '13 and I did a quick calculation. Approximating the igloo we ... his pow pow only lasts for a couple hours... Brothers begin to ... through college. A weekend with just the boys, away from the noises, lights

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  photograph of this genre, this may also be the most ridiculous picture from a ... first chance for the fencing sophomores to show off their new rings at a ... awards for everyone involved with the team. I don’t have any particularly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  just under a month, there will also be an opportunity for high school ... set for Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. The topic of the ... WIth CPW 2012 just a few days away, the whole school is getting ready

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and ... to win this than a team from MIT? Register/Report Located Balloons

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  check out the Disco Dance Floor and hung out for a while on First East ... First East Disco Dance Floor, then what are you waiting for? First, go ... video: [AVI (DIVX), 5MB] [Quicktime (MPEG4), 28MB] That's a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  mean the memories of the seniors I was talking to.  Since I'm a freshman ... technical terms, a really dope* concert with Macklemore and Ra Ra Riot. *note ... : I very much liked how they integrated string instruments into their

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  powers for good.   Today, I'm attending Defiance, a conference ... (director of the Center for Civic Media) welcome attendees Julia Reda, a ... Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  . You can read a decent list of hacks from the last couple of years here ... shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle just like the Torino medals. A much more close-up shot. You can see the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break. On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I ... I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for ... thing of great pride for a college, and they will entice good musicians ... conductor says it's an English thing, although I think it's just a difference

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  useful, and I know Paul '12 and Hamsika '13 are excited for it. RA applicants: I know you're all anxious for Regular Action decisions, but I'm sorry to say that I don't have any announcements about a decision date yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  WISE (Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering) is a three-day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student ... and from MIT. We strongly encourage students from underrepresented and
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember doing a couple of anxious dances and taking a few deep breaths before I ... for all I knew or cared. College? Yeah, it was something that I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of ... valuable skills from her Italian colleagues. Additionally, she now has a ... at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don ... This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a cloudy morning...but wait, there's more. Do you see what I see? Take

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  , we have a variety of programs to choose from. MIT’s first ... MIT undergrads come from every state in the country and approximately ... to the community, and each learns in their unique way. Although we can
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do not want to talk about that yet. Instead, I am going to show you some pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014