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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too ... -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group ... sports 4. watched Jon Stewart give a kind of bizarre and unrehearsed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  university has its own institutional priorities, its own culture, and its own ... Bachelors degree from your university, we will not be able to consider you (we ... process and selectivity of MIT with University of Cambridge. Is it possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  web-chat with a class at the Polytechnic Institute of Valencia (which I ... be a killer, since after the Physics test and some dinner, I ended up ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the article mentioned, were situated on newspaper stands all over campus: And ... semester is this Friday, as is my last physics quiz and the due date for my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  , 2000 and 2004, men's lightweight double sculls, United States FENCING ... Karvinen (TsK) Antaki, who was born in and will compete for Lebanon, lived ... , sailing, and, of course, UROP. Pat Antaki isn't the first MIT alum to go to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... Hello readers. Happy Holidays to everyone! The term is over and I'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  state the flagship state university provides strong programs in areas our ... speaking, the most prestigious colleges and universities will prefer the ... joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology -- held its 2006 Forum last Thursday, and my friend Veena '06 invited me to ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  program, and since then I've realized this is probably the most important information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  universities, the degree to which labs here are open to discussion and the ... processor. Let's call it a "Time Experiment" and pretend we know what we ... awesome. Ten out of ten would sit in it again. And since Hayden is so, Empty

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  years ago, I chose between undergraduate programs at Ohio State and at MIT ... going to state school would mean an automatic 4.0 and admission into a top ... competition between students, and is it destructive competition? Before I give a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  be wondering: who is this girl and why is she talking about astronomy ... Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.) Some news from me: I have a new blog now. Here it is. and now, here are three thoughts

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  only caught up in finishing psets, completing exams, and getting a degree ... :58 AM* "AH CRAPPPP. NOT AGAIN!" *throws TI-89 calculator into pocket and ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... can go ahead and read your application. Get it? Got it? Good ... nuclear engineering and wrote about a high school project that she was

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global ... , education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some ... than threats." To universally accept this concept, of course, would

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  , universities (including MIT and Harvard) and teaching hospitals. 1/5 of Nobel ... My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or acquire, and that sometimes those choices reflects on their own ... ” and “Best Shower Caddies on Amazon”. I started reading it because of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  political science and economics), and then go to law school. Actually, surveys ... , one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles a significant caseload in New York City's Family Court, and a third is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

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

  

  .A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in ... ripped out the carbon record of my experimental results and dashed out of ... scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we

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

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  , universities, research institutes and NGOs around the world. In addition to Chile ... , is home to the country’s most important universities and research ... Economy, Development and Tourism, MIT-Chile will create opportunities for

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011