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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  watching videos! No, not on YouTube, but on MIT Tech TV (http://techtv.mit.edu/about/)! If you think MIT students are too smothered with work to let their ... … I swear you’ll enjoy them! Grand Prizewinners 1st Place: Godel Escher

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  Blogging Year 3 is going to be unparalleled. I'll shut up now and give you what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a ... the rest of you - don't lose hope! Three more bloggers will be selected

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  pm. i'm studying progenitor cell migration in planarians, which are ... in the recipient, cut the donor until all that's left is a square piece ... to say, i was in survival mode every single day until i finished my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  If you were in Boston sometime these past few nights and glanced towards MIT, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Killian Court had been ... $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  with some visual cues. Remember now? This was all back in February ... main identifying feature of an MIT student. If you're wandering around and you see somebody with a brass rat on then you know they went to MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I ... and that's been busy too, and, well.. it's not you, it's me. Honest. From now on, I'll have to stop promising to come back regularly - you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  , and a tshirt. There's actually a lot to take into consideration when you're getting dressed in the winter. Layering is key, but you don't want to over ... flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you ... . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... student-athlete flips and you become the mystical other thing: an athlete ... -day naps, ice baths, and hanging out with all your friends you've been

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  share some of my enjoyment with you in the future. Current music: Bo ... . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  ! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light between Building 18 ... -million-year-old German limestone. It can appear different colors, depending ... Sailing Pavilion is the oldest university sailing facility in the country

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  . Ho was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1996, and was the recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  : interesting and brilliant people; students of every major can take nearly any class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren ... show through in your essay(s). Share your goals, interests and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I ... treasure. We didn't. I haven't eavesdropped on my parents in recent memory ... , period. But I got an internship in the Cognitive Science and Applications

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  past couple weeks about vacation time in the U.S. versus Europe. The basic gist, as I'm sure you know, is that Americans work their tails off ... something I noticed a couple months ago – this: What's that, you ask? The top

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  So this is what an Add/Drop form looks like: Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "But Laura, even though you haven't written in this blog in forever, I know you only took that picture on your second

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  Danny B. '15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields ... make you feel better :D] Let me start with a piece of advice: you know ... ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I ... from the collapsible litter group in 2.009 (that didn't make any sense to you, that's ok) and rigged it up to the force sensor. Then, it was time

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not ... about research he said, "The one thing all the sciences have in common is ... undergrad when he was in Finland. Anyway, his term as department head ends

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006