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• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses ... can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have been since ... the word decapitated. It feels like doctors have chopped off my head. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th ... of 2014, including Anna, Emad, Kate, Natanya, and Tom, were the first ... graduating today as well before heading to different corners of the planet to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... shortly thereafter at the same link. Because I know a lot of our readers are ... event. Alert readers may notice that one of the speakers is former

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  out the sun over a path that included the states of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... Kresge Oval on MIT campus. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night ... friend of mine tipped me off about the hack, but publishing his or her name

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total number of admits, this year the number of early international admits doubled, decreasing the number of spaces remaining for international

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  :   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the ... the many people who pass through MIT don't. However, the School of ... ; and see, the next time you visit campus, that these small, acts of love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best ... Admissions that is supposed to highlight the best of MIT's arts community.) For those both within and outside of the Institute who have not yet

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... things here and there on the blog, but I'd be doing a lot more of them were ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... University of Denmark). Investigates the significance of wet underwear and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... reveal this year's new bloggers, I'd like to share with you some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i. harmony and counterpoint i (21m.301) 21m.301 is one of the early music

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  the Class of 1954. Tech Reunions are exactly what they sound like ... coffeehouse, back in the day when this space on the 3rd floor of the student ... of the coffeehouse at one point, but his successor wanted to rename the

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat. Faced with a barrage of Conceptual Quantitative Questions as I neared the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... 2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with murals. Some of these are also animated! If you use the Artivive app and

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  engaged in some sort of war. Hey all, sorry about the relative dearth of ... preventing the theft of my laptop, and to all of the lovely prefrosh I had a ... my couch in the midst of 10.32, performing some blog-related duty, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of travel. most of the time, pushing is the correct choice the fundamental

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022