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• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  ! Hosting is harder than it looks! I have a newfound respect for Jon Stewart ... the cellphone ringtone competition and IAP. It's fun to watch Zig ... Production Services (AMPS) would love to hear your feedback about ZigZag, about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  at Star Market. They cost $2.99 plus tax. Upon starting to address them tonight, I noticed that none of them are really appropriate for showing true affection--they all feature sentiments like: Anakin: "To a most powerful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1 AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... - complete with photos. I am sad to report that the story doesn't have the ... , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... closer to Friday's expected mail date. Also, today's Boston Globe ... college admissions circles for her conviction that the increasingly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  late for extra materials to be reviewed in selection committee, any ... lots of calls today, with many references to my blog. Below are the FAQs ... don't have to send in the midyear report? A. No, you must send in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  I'm taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or ... ="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For ... ?[/caption] Ponies are difficult to sculpt because they have distinctive features that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  neediness in terms of paying for college, are from middle class families. I really do think universities need to do more to make college affordable for ... team challenge (school spirit??) seemed to be straight out of "The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial ... job you can get at MIT; you get paid $9 an hour to play Snood, press the ... thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I, likely late to Building 9 for the fourth time that week and ... I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... concepts I learned. The things I made. I just haven't. Instead, I want to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  Center for Theoretical Physics, eager to witness MIThenge.  And though ... If you hang around MIT long enough you'll begin to notice some ... MIThenge, after Stonehenge in England, and not to be confused with "Mitt

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see ... lucky folks get to hear them instead!). We get samples from chemists in ... . Sometimes we measure samples that can potentially be used for quantum

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... -MIT Exchange Program for the 2007-2008 academic year along with 24 other MIT ... tomorrow. The really great thing about coming to Cambridge is that we’

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  glasses to wear for the upcoming experience. You pass through another doorway and enter a room that has been engineered to optimize the room's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in international math & science olympiads. Competitions are held for such ... competing countries participated. Contestants attempt to solve 6 math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  , visited MIT last Friday to receive the 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the ... was able to teach us so much about the music that we did not know. He ... to sculpt phrases ever so beautifully. Our playing went from

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... to the holiday season, and (2) we had a major blizzard the day we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  wanted to donate blood for a demonstration. I thought he was joking and ... for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1 ... giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  physically significant counter-example to this premise. Let's start from the ... Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute ... entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007