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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  , centered around the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Das Rheingold ... Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being ... utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26-100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... that have long divided the world, being the source of almost every battle

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... moosh made of it now blah. (Editor's note: my spell-checker just insisted ... into a study break of dubious productivity. And I... Gave people

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Kao, STAFF REPORTER November 16, 2010   The number of ... applications comes even as the number of graduating high school seniors held

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed ... disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh ... Jewish New Year and Eid ul-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. Pictures

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  bottom of every blog entry. By clicking this link, you may choose to publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends ... who might otherwise never have seen it. I hope all of you found this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different ... Madrid, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Through the madness of MIT, savoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... from them about the status of my computer tomorrow, but if it costs more ... semester's worth of essays - and music!!) back though!! :( Haha - so this is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  one of their summer interns. I'm really learning a lot (including more ... language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants ... elliptical quad in front of one of their libraries and for some reason is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10 ... , polishing the brass and oiling the cherry, with the hope of having the camera

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  of the process instead. Most of the comments/questions I received last ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it ... one piece of your folder that will cause us to admit or not admit you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  previous years (see left-hand column of the "the road" link). So feel free to follow along on my six weeks of adventures in Michigan, Texas, Seattle, and ... state of Michigan, Michigan has two peninsulas - the "upper peninsula

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short ... . Given a chance, students often will combine two or more of these hobbies

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  After a lot of searching, I’ve discovered a video on YouTube that is ... you, and then they give you all sorts of free stuff as they prepare you ... blogger, but I have to wait for either Laura, Evan, or Jess to move out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  experience was one of the most liberating, invigorating, and awe-inspiring times of my life. That's no exaggeration -- my four days at MIT changed my life more than I'd ever expect. From the myriad of future classmates I

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to ... coolest of cool tech companies, Google. "In the interview, they asked me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  asked, Is it bad if we can't understand what most of this actually ... lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006