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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  yard in western Massachusetts that sold giant, live edge slabs of wood ... . "This is insane. Why did we do this?" We bought an oil painting (on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  , we accompanied the lively and jazzy voice of our guest artist, Patrice ... who induces Eve into apple eating. From that point on, musically, there

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  prolific. Better get started. :-) If you post regularly on any admissions ... living. Short answer #1 - Write a paragraph telling us why you want to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  Most universities aim to attract well-rounded individuals with varied interests and sophomore Jugal Shah is living proof of MIT's success. Jugal is ... of research opportunities on campus, he was able to cross paths with Dr

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ITS SPOOKY SEASON (complete) A spoopy piece of content every day for the month of October.

  

  /22 10/23 10/24 This actually happened today, picture taken from

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in technical terms, a really dope* concert with Macklemore and Ra Ra Riot. *note that the MIT Admissions Office does not endorse the use of dope.  Unless

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  weekend. Today incidentally also happened to be my brother's birthday AND

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to spend your evening drinking cider, hot chocolate, and eating cookies. There was Christmas music, a happy atmosphere, and there for all of it was

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  (Name that tune) Clearly today is July 4th, and thus the festivities are just beginning. Oddly enough, I'm in lab, but later this afternoon, I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  Today's issue of MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, accurately reported that we have received a record high 11,231 applications this year (this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  The Tech published an article today that contains some significant factual errors. In particular this statement: "Although MIT limits the number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received lots of calls today, with many references to my blog. Below are the FAQs. Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  A great article about MIT Professor Erik Demaine in today's New York Times science section: "Some people don't even think this exists," says Dr. Erik Demaine, turning in his hands an elaborately folded paper structure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  playing on me. You will have the most freeing, most independent, most ... understand you on such a deep, fundamental level, and then... Poof. Four years ... there, either in your research lab or your car on your morning commute or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... on the edge of the eclipse, caused by rugged craters on the moon ... 't want help. We watched the rest of the lead-up from the car, and then

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  ideas, like "go on a walk". I break down "go on a walk" even more. Maybe ... when we work on the level of ideas, we can abstract the lower details away. Frontend development is also one abstraction on top of another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the ... lately, often bordering on nightmares. i'd wake up and i'd feel tense ... pattern. for the past five nights i have constantly felt on the verge of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  comes later on. You don't really see too many old, one eyed cats flailing ... college. I arrived on campus for FUP (the Freshman Urban Program aka the ... listed on the Association of Student Activities website Unfortunately, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up ... satellites on the International Space Station! How cool is that?! Just a ... that I was proud to have worked on, nothing more. (But aero/astro is cool

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  'm also taking... 5.13: Organic Chemistry II Our first unit is on “amines ... that your human existence depends on. Do you recognize this guy? This is dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, which means that it helps

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011