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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  on campus. I was taking 18.02a and 8.01L. I was cooking for myself and ... stumbled upon an entry for a Comparative Media Studies/Writing UROP that looked like a perfect match for my obsessive fangirl brain: [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  honored to be a part of the selection committee for the Research Science Institute, a summer program hosted by MIT and run by the Center for Excellence Education. RSI, which is free (except for the application fee), actually has a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  actually be time for a new mnemonic, sorry Screech. So here's a contest ... If you're old like me, you'll remember a classic episode of Saved by ... mnemonics for learning the order of the planets was "MVEMJSUNP" pronounced 'me

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Jones: It's More Than A Job Marilee Jones: Sending You My Best Also: Bryan Nance A Post For Parents and It's All About the Process, Bryan Don ... Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour ... Kresge's lobby where we talked about jazz for a bit. We sat together almost ... Juno soundtrack, to give you a feel for what they sound like. St

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor ... tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to a summit in a co-cooking, potluck-style floor dinner. Ready? Go.                             

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if ... Thanksgiving day, we went to Chinatown for Thanksgiving dinner and had a ... . After stopping by a bakery to buy some roll cake (for breakfast the next

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  's assignment we had to submit a pitch for six different story ideas that we ... ? Revolutions. Beer. Pigeons. At 3 a.m., I wrote a synopsis for a story where ... state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  , save for the one Filipino guy working the grill. (He gave me a high five ... -making committee? What kinds of requirements are there for becoming a canyon with the ... a sweet job for me working as a research technician at RIKEN Brain

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  's an art!) so it can take up to a week for you to receive a response ... 'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can ... requests. There are a variety of details on this page, but here's a quick

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my top two choice schools!!! Needless to say, I did a happy dance. Still

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in ... observations, ask for clarification and chat with the French students on a ... Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  . For those of you who don't know, Head of the Charles, is a regatta where ... . Also, this year was the second year for Row-a-palooza, a series of free ... finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  Association sponsored some mini-golf, with prizes for a whole in one. Sadly ... silkscreen their own tee shirts. OrigaMIT had a table and instructions for ... . Undergraduate Association President Harel Williams deals the cards for a fierce

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... has a project underway, the people are up for anything. Pika's like that ... Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  and Wednesday, and meets for a two hour lab every week. While the lab ... a page of handwritten notes for. We’re expected to understand and ... ’m also taking a class on the history of science (STS.003), although for

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in ... shell out millions for a kid's science-fiction fantasy wasn't easy. After ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  parental advice. As for summer programs, we have already compiled a pretty ... I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It ... , a significant number come from parents whose children are years away

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  . For the rest of you, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the ... years and upperclassmen, and get a feel for everything MIT has to offer ...  on campus for their orientation, of which one major component is Residential

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022