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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  parents drove me back up to Boston as classes resumed. I spent my first few ... medical help, always go first to MIT Medical. Any Medlink will tell you the ... nation, and I believe incoming (and prospective) students deserve to know

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for life. (Who can argue with that?) And whenever I see those first flakes ... running around trying to taste a few. Which makes me sound like a fifth

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class ... conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to ... door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... someone else take the shot. Then he sent it to me and I spent way, way too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  The only course that comes remotely close to being as badass as aero ... Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... members who are MIT alums -- they all asked to see my Brass Rat. (One walked over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  4 Gs? Better yet, are you interested in working on a team to design ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the classroom to an exciting real-world project. The purpose of the competition

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Chamber Music Society, and the Symphony Orchestra. First of all, I want to ... goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... to do a great job at their internship, but *sometimes* they lack the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  first concept to understand is the General Institute Requirements (GIRs ... actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... two subjects (stats are here, but I happen to know they're not complete

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  me. First, I went to see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... . No one seems to believe me when I tell them that when I'm reading an application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd ... ! PS - Please forgive my camera shake. This is my first Iphone video ever. I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-)

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.

  

  Lots of fun stuff to check out! Peter Houk, director of the MIT ... prefer) circuit. First, he appeared on DriveTime: Then, he appeared on ... (though the subsequent traffic seems to have taken down Dheera's site

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  , I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It really sounds like an oxymoron to me, but hey, don't knock it til you try ... you guys. This year, I have a difficult decision to make, do I watch

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total ... students who submit regular applications." This is completely wrong. First of ... are limited to 8% of the class, not 10%. There's other weird stuff in

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  -P-E-E-D O-V L-I-G-H-T" Pete: "Hello, I'd like to speak to Agent Chitty Chitty" Here's the first puzzle we solved, see if you can figure it out. 182

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  First up, The Economist profiled Professor Gruber's research on religion and wealth. Prof Gruber was my 14.41: Public Economics teacher this ... from Bono's visit to MIT to discuss poverty research. Here's Bono with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  Today is the first day of final exam week at MIT. [read more: schedule] 800+ students & alums came to Kresge Auditorium last night to watch Randal Pinkett PhD '01 win the TV show "The Apprentice." [read more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  a bunk bed (to save space, #6 on this list), for the first time in my ... ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... the dishes, so much so that I have switched to using mostly paper plates

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005