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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  Each Wednesday, The Weekly Dig (my favorite rag) hits the newsstands. It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage ... professor inventing a real DEATH RAY, I didn't figure it would be a real

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  strong that I felt the need to express it in an avant-garde photomosaic on my door. I saved this magazine cover since June, because it really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  -Entry is a wonderful place. People like Mitra even hang out here. It's like ... against it.   The living room. This room is technically assigned to Adam, but it has all my clothes and books in it. We're using it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... handle it. Let me know if I snow anybody." So, imagine our delight when we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  site. Guy: Is it as good as Mitra's Blog? Sam: No. And then I realized ... ; it wasn't very polite at all. Shoot me an e-mail or comment or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  emotional about it - overwhelmed for the admits and devastated for the denied ... eve. I distracted myself with a transition shave. It's supposed to say

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  of you waiting for the BE major, it looks like it will be approved at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  Now that it's high season for interviews (especially for you early ... that it was at his house, which was quite dark, and seemed kinda scary to ... female students). I don't remember anything about the interview itself. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level of math, whichever meets your ability level) and calculus-based physics. It’s rare that an applicant is admitted without
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  've decided that it's time for me to go back to my roots. no drawing could ... it is clear that i was far cooler then than i am now ... . which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. right

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  i woke up this morning and it was COLD. i checked the weather. lo ... . but it still wasn't snowing. around 4 pm daniel called me. daniel ... *" me: "....what?" daniel: "IT'S SNOWING. COME OUTSIDE TO SEE THE SNOW

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  time. Not that you weren’t before, but it’s just that this time ... ) But it wasn’t all bad. We dug up so many memories, pictures, and ... confusion into tomorrow, despite our efforts to organize it away. So we will

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  , shake it off, and remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  self to stop worrying. Nor should I. Worry was inspiration. It’s why I ... ’t tell. Sometimes I return to that vision. It’s enticing. Not abysmal, as it seemed two years ago. I was very wrong about it then. I was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the mix! I currently have two UROPs, one in Biology and one in CMS. It takes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  crux of my media collection. It starts off with some classic newspaper comics, Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert. From there it leads into the ... poster I've had since sophomore year. It's adorned with postcards and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things ... had to finally empty out my locker for the first time in four years, it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  Court. It was due to this decision that I spent an hour and a half of this ... your way in four days and an orgo test coming my way in a week, it'd be better if you guys were distracted in my stead. It is with this notion in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  Mystery Hunt is a yearly tradition at MIT, but this isn't an entry about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has for Mystery Hunt. We rarely used it, but the sheer amount of information

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009