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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert ... here: the gila monster, its mottled orange and black skin warning of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  Taekwondo, I once went to a tournament at the University of Vermont, which is ... kind of crazy to me  Earn your degree ✅ Somehow did this one… ... this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Today marks the beginning of the glorious month known as IAP, which ... , MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  University of California, Santa Barbara. Hammond is a professor of chemical ... . Before assuming the presidency of MIT, she was Provost at Yale University ... them virtually via the webcast of President Obama's speech. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  ? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class ... were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  "Globalization" (University of California Press, 2004), Professor Jenkins writes ... my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts ... Studies professor Henry Jenkins for reasons why the popularity of Rain has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... - offered these options: 1. Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Stevie Wonder 2. Can ... Green The Muses - a female a cappella group - offered these options: 1. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  practically done everything my school has to offer and am also the president of ... application. Some common supplements we see would include: recording of your music performance; slides/Powerpoint of your artwork; an additional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... talking to strangers. i also ate lots of granola bars.   i spent a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive ... bunch of freshmen figure out where they'll be the happiest. What's not to ... the automatic sense of community that you get when you walk into a room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with the purpose of documenting East Campus culture and history before the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  decision. Out of the 437 students on our wait list, 26 were offered admission ... many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. During this time ... from the wait list. This year, we had a record-high percentage of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ,312 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2023. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,410 students. The Class of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019