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  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most ... , Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol culture in the US and her ... drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted in Early Action.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2017! This is what you look like right now:     Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  . They're easily recognizable and are sometimes even used intentionally in ... most famously, as Matt once blogged, in the case of Tony Stark '87. This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world ... -107) and one women's restroom (3-101). But that's about to change. And in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... undergrads. They've expanded greatly since they started, with chapters in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  International Olympiad in Informatics. The International Olympiad in Informatics ... students. Like its counterparts in math (IMO), physics (IPhO), chemistry (ICh ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  varsity fencer). However, I’m probably best remembered as that girl in ... first (yeah course 16!), but being an AFROTC cadet comes in a close second in my life, because out of everything I do, it means the most to my

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... determine after analytical deliberation not to do something often academic in

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

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ...  not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... UROP where we'll be reviewing the role that MIT plays in Marvel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  famous - so many, in fact, that all of their responses wouldn't fit in this ... and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first blogger to major in 21E, nor will I be the last. I actually decided to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury ... as they compete in PyeongChang! Luckily, because I was close (ish) to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was browsing today’s New York Times and saw an article called “Women in Science ... science and engineering classes in larger and larger numbers, even at top

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... small children kicking a soccer ball or sitting in a circle. While in ... brought water buffalo and smoldering fire pits. This field is in Mai Chau

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  , eight hours in an office sort of fly by if you're enjoying what you ... trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... time in the Operations and Technology buildings. The TOB (technology

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in ... Fest sold more tickets than any in recent memory.  And by "recent memory," I ... !  Probably to the chagrin of the cops in charge of security.  But they didn

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the ... there at Cambridge in my junior year than during my time here at MIT. The ... successfully, i.e. earning first-degree class marks on the exams. In particular

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  constructing this "structure" in his front yard. I know that many of you are ... in the neighborhood, I can speak with some certainty that he is not Noah and said construction in not an ark. Good Luck! P.S. A prize will

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• 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 ... read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission: Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006