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• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total ... doubled, decreasing the number of spaces remaining for international ... 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!

  

  Soon I'll be posting some photos and such from the hunt, but for now I'll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also ... -P-E-E-D O-V L-I-G-H-T" Pete: "Hello, I'd like to speak to Agent Chitty Chitty

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  apparently, every hour today, MISTI which stands for MIT International Science ... Contests, and even a Soccer Tournament I'll try to update this entry as I can with photos of events that I attend. Until then, I'm off to enjoy

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  to be ridiculously sick on several major holidays throughout my life ... to a single white blood cell, lovingly known as Theodore. (Actual text ... ’s Theo doing? Does he need more orange juice or soup or anything?) To put

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... : I got fed up with racing home from school everyday to check on the mail, only to find NOTHING from MIT. So, I have taken matters into my own

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  . We're trading pumpkin dances for turkeys and Christmas carols sung ... college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween ... the holiday, and before this year I didn't really have enough time to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  . This concert was unique for several reasons: 1. We premiered a newly ... Department here at MIT. This was the first time I had ever been exposed to a modern piece, and boy, was it fascinating (and at times, difficult to learn

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  above all else, for most students, Spring Weekend means the Spring Concert. Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big concert ... the band's most popular song (according to iTunes) and my favorite song

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  , and that’s something I’ll leave for you to think about. Let’s draw all ... have one swap for each pair of colors. (Why?) This leads to an ... don’t want.) Then connect these endpoints to form a hexagon. Repeat the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are ... film "Down to You" Tom Collins (expelled), from the musical Rent Please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  this series of directions to follow to find the train home. Discussion: Sometimes the text included with the puzzle gives you hints as to how to solve ... much with it unless you know how to traverse it. CLUES: A few of these

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  into the place to be. Other folks who were eating today's delicious gumbo ... finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... undergraduate who says she's been interested in astronomy for "as long as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Up To Snow Good PSA: IT'S SNOWING

  

  a storm is coming, are you listening in killian, the snow is glistening a wonderful fight our snowman’s a sight walking in a winter wonderland

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  to boldly go…

  

  our showerhead broke     happy last week of classes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach ... the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three ... come to love EC. This time? I barely left. There was hair dyeing, which I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e ... 's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to ... large whiteboards. You can often find people using the white boards to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a prime fireworks watching location. 2. The Sailing Pavilion. For members ... families only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... to the future.         Like many ... history is to realize that futures are products of their pasts. And one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but ... little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I ... still rolling full tilt into the spring. The registration deadline for ... students to attend than ever before. And I'll be working with the web team

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011