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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  clubs you're in, how high your grades are, or whether you scored perfectly ... in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  comic: you were so young on doubt

  

  • by Jude H. '21
  • October 5, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  Apologies for the video length/quality this week. MIT has me sufficiently hosed this weekend, following an already-stressful week. Such is life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!

  

  Sorry for being MIA you guys! I've had a tough couple of weeks, but I'm back! Thursday night/Friday morning was filled with intense tooling, but ... . This week, we went to Buk Kyung II, a Korean restaurant in Allston. So

  • by Celena C. '12
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I got a friendly email reminding me of this rare mathematical oddity ... kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in ... have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Apple Sculptures The Caltech Cannon and soft core porn

  

  I'll admit it -- the "soft core porn" reference in the excerpt for this entry was pretty cheap... but it worked, you pervert. Here are some of the sculpture entries for Burton Conner (my dorm)'s annunal Apple

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His ... . Salvador, I thought you were the one... (P.S. Questions from last entry have

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ago we did our traditional decorating of the tree. Just 2.8 miles ... spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  —but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and ... they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  very least, you won't have to experience your hardest semester in an environment like the one you're currently in—you'll (hopefully) have lots of friends to support you in person! Hang in there, everybody...

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... , but it is also mutual-- you care for others, and they care for you. In ... you all! I’m Selam, the newest new blogger, and I’ve just joined the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  , you do the math. ;) I work directly with a postdoctoral associate in ... in Cell. (For anyone who follows science journal impact factors, this ... , you have a DNA that encodes a protein you're psyched about, and you put

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  designed and administered in 2014. The takeaway: young women at MIT are every ... 's controlled for major, equal leadership and participation in extracurricular ... , difficulties and differences in experience arising from sexism. Despite her

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does ... landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of ... mixed with the remains of over 100 shattered pumpkins in McDermott Court

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  first snow day I have had in years. The view from my window Back home in Colorado, snow days are few and far between. It usually takes about ... stick around more (case in point: I had never seen snow turn black), but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  ... check it out! Let us know what you think, either in the comments section ... interviews, AMPS captured the B roll footage you see in the video, including ... came up last semester over a lunch meeting at the Forbes Family Cafe in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need ... hollow blue pipes, pointing at the Charles so that you could see the other ... . This is even more ironic if you know that Building 54 is named the Green

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  10 (more) reasons why MIT is beautiful part tvte?

  

  Part 1 here (1) Because sometimes when you’re heading home after a long day of classes, you turn around and see this: A photo posted by ... ) Because sometimes it’s Christmas in April: A photo posted by Michael

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  the best steak in the world, guaranteed or I'll give you my diploma ... having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017