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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  AIDS, there is a lot of joy. And life without joy is pointless." It ... blogged earlier, is also sponsored by the French department, part of MIT Foreign Languages & Literatures. Speaking of which: French language

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school. Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... are a wind ensemble) to convince IS&T to loan out 12.9-inch i

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he ... to change the world. That part was just icing on the cake. As he explains on the kids' page: "Think about most of the bad things that have

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  transcript? A: You can fax it to us at 617-687-9184 or mail it to MIT Office of ... still apply to MIT for Early and/or Regular Action? A: On Nov 30th, Quest ... application is incomplete, we will not be able to match you. However, we would

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  be going insane trying to eat 500 lbs of food, watch people juggle with ... is why we like to let YOU blog CPW. Bryan started this system two years ... this year!). So, here it is, the official "I want to write a guest entry

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... sound effect (apparently to mimic some kind of bird call). Fun fact: his ... an hour. The rehearsal stretched on for so long that we didn’t get to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  been sent to MIT. Our College Board Code (for SAT and TOEFL) is 3514 and ... other schools on your list. It's an unfortunate fact of life that, in all ... will be deferred to regular action for further consideration (and some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  stuffing than I care to count. Personally, this is also my favorite night of ... family. While it is only advertised to Next House, our goal is to give ... "Delicious food" "Better than home" "My favorite dorm event" "I was

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am ... on the train and hope that I wake up to my 7:20 alarm. 7:30 AM

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  visiting MIT on what is a vacation week for some students across the country ... (and hence won't be able to informally meet with folks otherwise or attend HMMT), I want to be able to take some time to see the MIT Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 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
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... , "preview concert" on July 3rd. This was the second year I decided to attend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on ... of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  Nobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of ... 're capable of something worthy of an Ig Nobel? The reason I bring this up is ... . While I missed the ceremonies, I did make a point of going to the informal

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those ... know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  to continue doing. So what is RUNE as a club like? We are a group of ... It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top ... foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  just because I find it kind of weird, maybe a little jarring. I prefer to ... 'd just touch on it a little bit. I love going to parties! I love going to bars! I love going to clubs! And I've been doing a LOT of that this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story about struggling with sacrificing self-care to prioritize academics ... Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ... ,000 [aquaporins] per square micron.”  which is kind of vague (what do you mean, up ... we’d put on the paper anyways. I'm kind of inclined to trust 5 and 6

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  are plenty of opportunities to learn about science writing. One of the (many) graduation requirements is to get a “concentration” in the ... Introduction to Technical Communication (21W.732) class that focused on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007