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• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best ... doubt the power of the weather machine, but I assure you it's real! How

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.

  

  Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ZigZag Episode 8 A new video podcast episode.

  

  Episode 8 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now; I serve as host for this episode. My favorite part was getting to interview the "red jackets," MIT's 50 year reunion class: the Class of 1956. Check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of ... up to one year. After the integration of the system is complete, we ... Just a reminder...there are a lot of new UROP opportunities for IAP

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  Every few seasons, the hallowed concrete walls of Simmons Hall come alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts ... Eugenie who led this time-honored tradition: the sacred game of Scootah

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  , vivacious, and inspiring Venezuelan conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ... his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius ... sense of triumph when we masterfully performed a particular measure of the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean ... the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early ... somewhat early) and a large proportion of the bloggers were probably still

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops ... the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... , because it is specifically targeted at students within the Department of

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early ... my life. I'm kind of like a less creepy version of the subservient ... bridges going across the river but none of them seemed to have sidewalks for

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for ... Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum ... -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  Jeopardy-style questions. It will be more along the lines of Tell me about ... dynamic. He entered MIT just before the onset of World War II, and his MIT ... week or so. But with the 20-20 hindsight of an admissions officer, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... definitely don't provide the perspective of the whole Institute, and I'm sure ... something completely different and equally great out of the experience. And

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on Conner 2 (second floor, Conner side). Each of the floors has its own very ... huge chunk of money that is allocated to the floors to have activities

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo ... garden of temporary statues. "Hammer Time." The scene resumes. I ... ," ... At the end of the meal, the waitress asks us, "What is your gift to

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  the glittery Boston skyline reflected off of the glossy black surface of ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my ... rainwater hasn't already. The warm days of summer have already breathed their

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  kinds of thoughts to mind. This happens every summer as the academic year ... but this year is different. Last year I attended the 25th reunion of my ... their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on ... is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during ... wanted to do during the school year, without the weight of "oh why am I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how ... the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a ... Emerson Scholar program? MTG? I've read most of the online stuff, but I'd like to know about the time commitment and competitiveness of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006