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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... holding that particular instrument?) After the orchestra teacher suggested that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  just kidding about the rap. More like a 118-line poem. (below ... . :( OK I know you guys are all sick of the whole "I'm hosed!" talk, so I'll skip that. (please refer to back entries of any of the bloggers if you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  Sorry for the massive blog entry - this should have probably been split into two or three, but I didn't want to dominate the homepage. :-) ------------------------------------------------------- Campus Preview Weekend Registration Deadline The deadline to register for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT community announcing the creation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing ... phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  -long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... transparent plastic top, this nautical party ship cost all of $10.99 at the neighborhood Walgreens. (Notice the torso-sized hole through which the model

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs, professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  Yesterday, I got up early, despite having gone to bed late the night ... Sarah '08, who organized the trip. Also, because I wanted to have time ... Harry Potter fame) tried to kill the Great Dome with a curse, leaving a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  which stories resonate the most. This is an introspective journey. Ideally, the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood. Once you've found them, you've unlocked the essence of storytelling. So

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... that you have accumulated over the past four years and may have forgotten

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  them) and visited Machu Picchu (Exhibit C). After all the pictures I’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming. But it was breathtaking, especially in the early morning with mystical

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

    livestream of the graduation ceremonies     Today occasions the 151st Commencement of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the next few hours of pomp, circumstance, and Tim Cook, 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS ... my other classes. After using the search tool online, I managed to ... interested in the material and can therefore contribute and participate more

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  This is the more hardcore half or so of the 42 recipes. Most of these I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or when I really, really don’t feel like p-setting. At the end there are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  Today, the Class of 2018 graduates from MIT.       ... exceptional. The admitted Class of 2018 includes mathematicians and marksmen and ... holding in common the highest caliber of character, conscientiousness, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW, all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  Late last night, I cut the brakes on the Sleep-8-Hours ... cast the situation in the linguistic frame of an 8 year-old, the auto ... classroom into the hyperactive-kid-infested ball pit at Chuck

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Yesterday, I officially completed the 12-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005