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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a ... struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to ... to take that opportunity away from prefrosh. What they forget is that

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose to accept is to build 50 yo-yos including at least three parts. This ... were set on our way to make some yo-yos. We could have made a simple yo

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... flashing red). I wasn't there to see the daunting skies, but it reminded me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  , decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons ... ’s nothing to say here, except that it turned out that the air compressor Zach bought at Target operated on a 12 volt car battery, so he had to get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we ... around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them ... discoveries. They linked to two great articles, one from Wired Magazine and the

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  : Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to ... ! A resident of Random Hall prepares a dry ice (!) drink for me. TEP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  witness to the ultimate showdown between Turkey and Spam. Despite a two-hour food coma immediately after dinner, I think it's pretty safe to say that I emerged victorious. I wanted to turn the turkey carcass into usable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10.302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I'm going to see MTG's Star Wars: Musical Edition on Sunday, so I really have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past ... lecture, this time by Wolfgang Ketterle (though I had him for freshman physics, so I got to hear him speak 3x/week). Admitted students, log into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to ... one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  at MIT, you don't have to major or minor in the arts to be fully ... take art, music, and theater courses, and any student can audition to ... organizes the Student Lending Art Program, which loans real works of arts to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  country that was tightly shut to foreign influence for the majority of its ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  learning solutions utilizing robots that she invents and gives to kids for ... today, Institute Community and Equity Officer John Dozier sent an email to ... opportunity to "acknowledge Indigenous Peoples as the traditional stewards of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... us, and it turned out to be the right place for both of us. But if it ... Meh. My last, like, three or four ideas for entries have not quite

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  just waiting to teach you more. For example, as a first-semester freshman ... it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  to imagine future directions and applications for our more ... to all members of the Humanities who seek to create media projects for ... analytically rigorous. I tried to describe an article I recently read from the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... if Bostonians are less accustomed to snow, or perhaps it really does

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  For the past four years, Sid Puram has had a UROP in the renowned ... microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  by friends, singing loudly for the night sky to hear. [caption id ... and some other friends up to the roof for fireworks, and these pictures ... , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018