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• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  ’m excited to give you the full story of the complete mess that we made. Here ... sugar and flour, and 7 large cans of shortening. On the way back, Kristen ... everywhere (2:16). This dented a few of the cans and made a mess in the uhaul

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... felt. The message of "being" vs. "doing," quality over quantity, and ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... Computing Group. The leader of our group is Zoya Bylinskii, a PhD student, and ... what the progress of each project is. That means everyone has the freedom

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students ... they sent out the following blast: Dear Glass Lab followers, One of the ... scheduled, we have, thanks to the labors of Erik and Marty Demaine, installed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and ... coming year is the Year of the Pig. So, as has become the tradition, we ... cameo in the first episode of CSI: Miami. She spent the following year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence halls are available on the Housing site. ... More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post. However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... with accompanying passages about the history of Boston's public transit

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the ... 'll return to you the actual piece of spacecraft hardware which carried your ... on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  On July 6, the world eagerly watched as London was named the host of ... 're evaluating Class of 2010 applications), Torino, Italy, will host the 2006 ... , the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) -- the oldest of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... during the training, so I wrote on it instead. On the bottom of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Fun Home by Alison Bechdel ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Of Mice and Men by

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh ... the snow down 3rd Street, a hotbed of the eco-friendly hipsteria that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  foul chemicals you do not know the name of. They make the metal that you ... ball shatter. To remove the fear of messing up. You could crush that ... of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... began making the very unhealthy-sounding buzzing sound of an electric

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  pictures of my friends. (Hi, Sam.) What made this different from all the ... interesting to see not just what people do over the course of a typical day, but ... all the time. Or the pattern of the splatter paint on the walls of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  much in the way of good professional sports teams - it's mostly the ... 's even more exciting when the team is winning. The night of the seventh ... when the Sox won, a massive crowd of people left Burton 3rd and went down

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  was selected as one of the seventy members of Interphase EDGE that is ... -in. I had a cartful of crap spilling over the sides, that I was ... the picture perfect start to ease my wave of nerves and angst, for what

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  finishing the last of four exams on Monday, I had a pleasant four-hour lapse into the depths of meditative relaxation, AKA, I ate some fruit and read ... that you have failed a test is the equivalent of eating a burrito

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009