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• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  's roof. The many windows were also perfect for a hack – playing Tetris! ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a ... -competition. Antonio wore a Garmin watch, which he used to record his heart rate for all

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  attached to you, and not just for what you'd bring to the MIT community, but also for the amazing persons you are. Like a wise man once said, for us ... choice is yours -- which school is the best fit for you? We knew coming in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Postcard From The Green Building postmarked july 5th

  

  Yesterday I took photos from the top of the Green Building. MIT sprawled far below us, the lines of its normally inscrutable architecture recognizable for once as the Hacker's Map. Even Stata finally made visual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  life for a second. Whether you're a current senior and getting excited for CPW, a current undergrad and getting excited for CPW, or a prospective student who will one day be excited for your CPW, we all have a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  the future. for example, here's a screenshot of this week, which is ... calendar for the past three years. light blue are things that are ... action items for myself, or retroactive descriptions for what i did for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  folks at doonesbury.com shut down voting access for those in the mit ... "Electricity and Magnetism for Masochists") had an official response to the ... heat anyway. (and the "resistor" in a source like that isn't really even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  " (right) by Richard The (G). (Photos provided by Richard The) Richard is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective ... pieces. The first, "Appeel," was a large wall covered in peelable orange

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  , March 5, the Somerville Theatre was packed for a World Music Crash Arts event. There was a sold-out showing of Metropolis (1927) that I had the ... shown, a large orchestra would play a score made especially for the film

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, is a program for ... searches and in preparation for the summer and the future.  UPOP also holds a ... it was a great rest for the cats, who quickly became bored of us as

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  about across the shores of Valhalla. Then, after writing a slew of blogs—drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... day a message appeared from the aether that read, “You should blog. Now

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  ." * * * * * * * * There was a lot of anticipation for the design of the seal shank. Last ... brass plated in the MIT Lab for Metallurgy. Just kidding! ('ll be here all ... played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East ... records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a ... doing the unforeseeable and Going Outside! (It's also because I took a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... don't, don't worry -- I assure you we have a host for you. CPW invades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• 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 ... inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting ... pockets of DNA. If you imagined the sphere as a beach ball, the pockets of

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

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  parent who registered for a Financial Aid session - okay, it was the candy ... and got a feel for the warmth and camaraderie that permeated every ... pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  will receive a phone call.  For the adult show, you usually given about ... for a part of a second.  There are lights on the left and right sides ... was preparing to be out of the country for a month and was too busy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  contemplated whether or not we could get a plot for the bloggers. Further along ... Necklace and our last park for the day. Of note was a brave squirrel, which ... "]eat lunch.[/annotation]We then reached the summit, gazed out for a little bit

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  everyone headed out for the break. There were a lot of preliminary project deadlines. I gave a presentation for the Multimodal User Interfaces class ... five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018