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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decorations. It's always easy to know what to get your mom or significant other ... great, if not THE great living glass blower, Lino Tagliapietra, is working ... scheduled, we have, thanks to the labors of Erik and Marty Demaine, installed

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

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said, "When we heard the best minds were on the case, we expected MIT, not the ... , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  to tell you it was not always easy. That's because Terence and his ... deal with, but I've pushed through it. I'm not going to let anything stop ... that he could to make sure his children did not end up on the wrong path

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  Hello everybody! I'm still alive, I promise, just not at the computer. I will, however, be at the computer tonight from 8:00PM EST to 10:00PM EST to answer all of your questions about MIT in gory detail. What

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go on thursday, too. Yeah, life isn't so bad. Turns out I'm not nearly as

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... breakfast at an affordable price, not to mention that Sunny is awesome and is

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  , but not as awesome as MIT. Consider the evidence: Sigh. But a week ... . Here I am, preparing to do an info session for the people on the beach: I even made my wife do some recruiting: To make it seem as though

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application. The only thing you need to do is submit the February Updates & Notes ... includes an opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  contribution to MIT's varsity athletics, they may choose to advocate for you in ... your application. Unlike many other schools, MIT does not send "likely ... " which they may fill. Prospective athletes to MIT are subject to the same
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  -binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either round, aside from learning your decision earlier. Every applicant has to ... nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  sister (not biological, just to clarify... read the link), Alice '11, who I ... not to take this class and do other things instead, save for a few very ... tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually ... to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak out, it's not THAT dangerous. It's just, well, it has some neat signs

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  older sister to me, reflecting on how much we've seen each other grow ... Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip ... the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  not. For example, if you try to do something cool, or say a piece of ... This summer, living alone has given me the immense freedom to do ... Dungeons and Dragons. For those of you who do not know, Dungeons and Dragons

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  ; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the ... person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  adjective to describe the same adjective. That's how much it blew the mind ... , and whether or not cosmologists need to justify their existence. Kip was ... ) prior to Monday, I was under the legal lottery ticket purchase age, (2

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... started, so I set out to make a great American delicacy: Sloppy Joes. Sam ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  the blogs. Capitalizing the word 'I', being careful not to overextend ... thoughts. we'll see how this goes. feel free to send thoughts of your own ... i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  , metamorphose into their adult forms, and crawl out onto the land, not to return ... the axolotl does not metamorphose, its cells are capable of reverting to ... of world biodiversity does not yet amount to one. However, the same

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013