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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  . Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before, otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  all the innocnet and clueless froshies. This convenient relationship sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... ," and it takes places in E15-001, aka The Lego Learning Laboratory. E15

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  the Greek father of vegetables? His name was Crudites. ;-) (Yes, it was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will pass that advice on in the posts to come. A visit to Boston to visit

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

  Windy city

  

  Yesterday, I wrote, "I'll be back in the office tomorrow, assisting with the last parts of our process before decisions are made final and ... abnormally high winds and bad weather in the northeast, my flight had been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 3

  

  , Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, Ernie, and Bert Today, I worked with Marivel and Prof. Laura Ceia-Minjares of the French Department. For lunch, we had ... friends, including one who was in town because he's coaching a team for the

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

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  $50 registration fee later I was enrolled in 6.270 for IAP. The official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... Presentation in which student-designed products were presented. -- I was in the ... from a piano several feet above filled the room. Lights danced around

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen took deserve to be shared with the blogosphere! Discover Product Design ... participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  that the MIT Admissions Office does not endorse the use of dope.  Unless ... Lewis!  The star showing of the night, and the reason why this Spring ... mean the memories of the seniors I was talking to.  Since I'm a freshman

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

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  induced coma, I spent the last few days working on those things I put off ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... -- right now the time I spend working could be spent on soaking up the sun

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  've changed the homepage video. Gone is MIT: The Motion Picture, retired (appropriately) to the MIT Movies Emeritus page. In its place, you can find "What ... movie was produced by MIT students during the Freshman Arts Program which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take any excuses, I've been looking for ways to recharge myself and face the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  Add Date -- the last date on which you can add a class -- is this Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I’m taking this term. I’m taking a total of 45 credits, the fewest credits I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  concrete sidewalk grids, swollen with rain delicately infused with the brine ... -shortening chemicals, I wrestled down the nightmare-inducing plethora of health concerns associated with touching water that had once belonged to the Charles River and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  attack on our epic snowman by the anti-snowman league, we started receiving reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a ... dispatched to the snowman to assess the damage and administer any treatments

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  humanities class. The sciences and maths are pretty standard fare; you'll have a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement tests, APs, and whether you'd prefer Chem or Bio first semester. On the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist that we do not have any more room in the class, and will not admit any additional students from the waitlist this year. The decision not to admit any

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and ... the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty ... ", because you have just enough room to extend your arms all the way. Coffin

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008