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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I ... news for Heroes fans at MIT: Masi Oka, who plays the lovable and awesome Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests, including: Migrated the whole site to a Movable Type

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  Hockfield recently wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled A Model For Tackling The Energy Challenge. Here's a snippet, beginning with her speaking ... As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  ” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic ... school, namely, the ABCDF system, except with a few additions. Below is a ... report is slightly different from your transcript. The grade report is for

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  closely with The Tech as I did last year. These parts dying down for a ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I ... this can be seen through the use of cameras; taking a photo of our three

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in ... legend. In addition, Arrigo was a gifted writer and poet: he wrote the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

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

  

  note="Exercise left for the reader. As a hint, read the first letters. It ... . These teams have been hunting for a long time, and the three teams I ... teams. For example, the Association of Taiwanese Students has a huge team

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  worrying for my future... will I get into a good school? Can I get a job? Can ... ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more ... in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds ... quite large (I, for one, really like the larger crowds!). As a result, we ... preparing for the Class of 2010. Now is the time when we can take a step back

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  're rushing for time, You'll make something that's not worth a fart. The best ... What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... seemed mapped out for me: follow the degree requirements for whatever bio

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... Pistol a HT@MIT, it's the instructor Mike Conti.   Background I took

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  . On the other hand, I had been working on the second story for a while ... .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects—here are a few of them, organized by class: 21M.401: Concert Choir At the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  few things that make the fall season such a significant time of year for ... , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to ... that uses one of the three - and also find myself consuming a little too

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  walkthrough adventures.  The company I work for is called 5 Wits and the CEO is ... being a lab instructor for 2.009 and I give back a bit by being a lab instructor for 2.00b (toy design). We also sometimes use the 5 Wits shop to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection continues Regular Action domestic selection is underway.

  

  As you've read over at Ben's blog, the admissions officers are currently in the middle of regular action selection for domestic applicants ... in Turin. And last week, after a snowstorm, The Tech captured some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  anticlimactically canceled, but I still went for a nice run with a couple of other ... -friendly town in the world and a bustling, vibrant city. CPW taught me a lot ... Boston side of the river, everyone is bound together by a love, or at the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  on the architecture career for quite some time now. But it has taken a ... into a proposal for a functional school building. As soon as I started ... was something more. It was the result of a build-up, the result of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  , because it’s the epitome of brains and brawn. Contending for a national ... school. Yes, that MIT. The one that has swept the Putnam competition for ... , but success across the board. Every MIT team in the NEWMAC has won a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  , I was receiving an award for the first time, and in what felt like a ... this weekend was a hectic one for my living group. [annotation note ... for our current members and alumni. the chaos started on Thursday, where

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... as a student at MIT. Got back to GHAMAS to set up for the Hartford ... Paris or Nicky though) and grabbed the MIT boxes that were waiting for me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005