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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  role intuition played in directing our search for such principles, as ... being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  next game of among us or only connect or tichu. i'm waiting for ... a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... sunday. i didn't do anything else, other than staff office hours for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Institute for Talent Development and the Johns Hopkins University Center for ... ] speaks of the importance of being able to be "on the failure track for a ... world" can dawn. For those of you intrigued by the program highlighted in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today preparing for upcoming travels, including some college fairs I'll be attending ... day weekend for MIT students (but only a three day weekend for staff

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  Harvard. The answer is yes. People usually go to Harvard for language ... opportunities for cross-registration at Wellesley (yes, even boys), the ... have no choice but to drive. I happen to hate driving for more reasons

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow ... toured the Colosseum and Forum for the low price of 20 Euros. Now before I ... . And now for the pictures (and some commentary here and there

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... essential, but hey, making more money as a grad student can't hurt.) Thursday ... , so it's Wednesday, I just printed out my 9.15 paper, and I'm done for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester ... kitten except for little Brittany! Kayla hasn't decided on a name yet ... Game of Thrones. The little kitten is so cute! She jumps all around and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged ... . Mitra enjoys the economic thrill of auctions. Our emcee for the night, Julie Banda from MIT Medical. Guessing Game: What was my final auction

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  here for anything in the world.Favorite things about Boston: The Charles ... anywhere and there's so much stuff to do for college kids. I love that the ... Usual Suspects, Clue, The Game, The Matrix Trilogy, Zoolander, Anchorman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  Boston for this but...well I just wasn't expecting him. He played for the ... feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing ... off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for you non-nerds, that's live-action role playing) and giving out recipes for snacks. Art gives us MIT students a reason NOT to do schoolwork, and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  ago, where you get to see TWO plays or operas in New York for FREE with ... , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney ... order to register for the Dopey Challenge you have to prove that you're even remotely qualified, which means submitting a "proof of time" for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  After rocking the jeans + sweater/t-shirt look for almost an entire ... molded, semi-precious or precious metal for which they paid large sums of money several months prior. After receiving their ring, colloquially

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC ... : Getting Our Money's Worth of 'Healthness.'" What is healthness (not a typo ... for Continuous Manufacturing (a 10-year partnership between MIT and one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for ... why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college ... destructive game where you score as many acceptance letters as possible. Harvard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of BS. I still feel like I never have enough time for all the things I ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning team is the honor of writing the next year's Hunt. For some history, check out this classic article from Games Magazine. If you'd like to try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  !   I’m the lead story artist for Coco. I’m from Chelmsford, so I grew ... back in like ’99. Eventually I was there for like a year and all my ... was there for about three years. I was doing character layout which is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017