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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  , Jefferson Tester, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, says he ... -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of ... -student. No school – just a soccer practice at 8 am and another at 2 pm, mid

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  . Staring at them, I got the sense of a one-man industry. He said the work ... printer at the start of last year (after his internship with 3D Robotics in ... white under the wintry fury of snow). As he stared at the dome, it finally

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  make a person feel at home. But acquiring a sense of happiness, sense of ... Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was ... generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy yet unfamiliar basement of Walker Memorial. It was one of the first ... name of my show conveys the unique combination of music I play; that is

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  of Friday and all of Saturday completely off. Yes, that screws me for today, and possibly all of next week (Playsentations soon? Do we have a ... phone vendors hocking products, lot's of bustle. Saturday evening most of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  just a sampling of groups at MIT, and don't forget that a lot of the cool ... I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week ... row asked me what else you could do in labs besides classes and UROP. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... that he'd be down at the end of the 3rd floor of building 8, so I met up ... if it comes from a box or consists only of taco meat and cheddar cheese

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many of you probably have been playing an instrument for years or ... and what you’re good at. It’s been almost two decades so

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of ... Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... longer -- if we don't have it at that point, you'll get an email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of ... , I'm kind of running around because I'm jet-lagged like crazy (Adam and I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken ... Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at ... easily repeated. At the end of the class, we had to make five tens of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  residents of Floor Pi. At one point, we were large enough that a team called ... screen, so you can look at the list of puzzles and view how far people are ... . Reading the text in the beginning of the puzzle hints at putting together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  of them for your PE requirement (yes, there's a PE requirement at MIT ... Classes you should definitely ASE or AP out of (or take at earliest ... almost targeted directly at freshman, which conveniently fills the gap of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... myself up at the bright and early time of 10am to peel some apples and ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... central park in the middle of the city. We talk. He just came from debate at ... And birds go flying at the speed of sound To show you how it all began

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019