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Blog / MIT History & Culture
+1 for MIT MIT scores again!
I just found this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Score! -
Blog / MIT Life
Howdy Where are you guys going to live? Etc.
myself. All of the applications have been fantastic! (There's still a week left before the EA deadline, for those of you who are procrastinating ... for an entry to this effect in the next couple of days. -
Blog / Academics & Research
Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.
Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to ... would take CMS.410 Popular Culture in the Age of Media Convergence ______ Examines recent shifts in the structure and operation of the American media -
FAQ / First-year application
Will there be a wait list this year?
Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won -
FAQ / Academics and research
When was MIT founded?
Ok, this is probably more info than anyone wants regarding the founding of MIT, but you asked! -
Blog / How to Human
people appreciation post <3
in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... losing funny points in front of Jonathan, the constant struggle of man to -
Blog / MIT Life
REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!
based on the idea of having students with the same advisor live together ... and illogical to keep a few freshmen out of the rest of the system. In ... , and so I raised enough of a fuss about it that I was one of the lucky -
Blog / Academics & Research
A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions
Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I ... . Since I make the meatcubes in batches of six, the first cube was browned -
Blog / Academics & Research
class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy
I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the -
Blog / Admissions
Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior
after the start of those, “Virgin Bartending” (non-alcoholic) begins. At 2 ... attend at least 70% of the events. Picking will be a pain. The names and ... number and variety of activities indicate the great teamwork and passion -
Blog / Challenges
There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?
understand? Don't you know that the view from the bottom of the Lobby Ten steps ... ? Don't you know the sky is the same here? Don't you see it? The base of ... now. I thought I would've been hardened entering the doors of Lobby -
Blog / Athletics
Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.
I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are ... experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the ... cheering the water polo team to a 5-2 lead at the end of the period, we left -
Blog / Admissions
Just a Little Patience The latest word.
the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago.Regular action applicants across the country are concerned about the processing of ... beyond the call of duty to process the 40,000+ application pieces as -
Blog / MIT Life
Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.
French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... again. I also did a fair bit of reckoning, the fruits of which fed this ... a sports car because I'd jump to the end of a problem instead of being -
Blog / MIT Life
Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.
. Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... supermarket down the street. Granola bar of unknown provenance. 12:30 PM ... limit. Unfortunately, this appears to be the limit of absurdity as fun -
Blog / Academics & Research
Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…
the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical ... create a device with the capability of culturing very small pieces of 3D tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that -
Blog / Challenges
Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.
It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10 ... going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my -
Blog / MIT Life
Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.
front half of its body, and the child just kind of licks it off ... was the property of my Ukrainian downstairs neighbor Albert. Tip: Once ... / Ice Dagger combination for the rest of the game. 2. Coding in MATLAB -
Blog / Admissions
Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…
course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to ... stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... in the mail. I'm not sure of the exact number of admits, but it is very