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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Laverde's Market, nestled in the MIT student center, claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I was perusing The Tech yesterday evening when I happened upon an article

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the comments. So go back and read the comments! It's like when your favorite networks try to convince you to watch reruns during the summer except you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the ... applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly ... -provoking conference. Thursday through Sunday, I was in St. Louis for the annual

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to ... typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... ="January 15, 1919"]in the 1900s or something[/annotation] a giant tank of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Program"]UROP[/annotation] with the Tangible Media Group (TMG) at the MIT ... I've actually been involved in TMG since the spring semester, but without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community (FLC) hosted by the Global Languages department and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives). The FLC, which began this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the first Visual Arts @ MIT post, we talked about the various extracurricular

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world, and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  some mistake here ... someone pls correct us in the comments ... we aren ... abbreviated FAP. Yep that is the acronym. But us counselors embrace it and make ... second time, we are now beyond desensitized to the word. It's both awful

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More ... ) thought because relevant. Anyway, here's the room~ the view when you first walk in the room There are only two closets in the room, so I hang my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of clothing and mementos on the floor... But what should you pack, really ... will brighten the hard times. Guaranteed. -- a surge protector. Electric

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  smallest magnitude close by the moon." (II.1051-3) I'm not sure what Milton means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... . "Magnitude" here could also have meant "importance." The term could be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  A few weeks ago, I organized a 140+ person barbecue for the many alumni that have lived on my hall, going all the way back to the MIT class ... exception.  The alumni told stories of the wondrous pranks and adventures they

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  [Editor’s note in 2023: This post contains outdated information. The Midyear Grade Report is intended for students who have indicated on the ... how to submit their latest grades.]     Hi Everyone, The

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  's Last Stand.  The Battle of the Alamo.  That one time those buff Spartan ... you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green Building.  That's because those nocturnal diurnal (what's the term for "does

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh ... for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of studying here reminds me that I'm pretty fortunate to have had the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  . I ran into Killian Court and flipped the bird. I gave everyone the finger as crowds amassed on the sidelines to see what the commotion was ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I ... ’ve been attacking people at grocery stores and farmer’s markets around the ... an entire 5 minutes usually had pretty strong opinions about the whole

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011