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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  top download at a popular indie music Web site. Dupuis loves math and ... at the age of eight and now holds 20 national rifle championship titles ... neutrino mass earned a spot at the International Science and Engineering Fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  , thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... the scene below (note the delicious Mike's Pastry at right): not your ... greater excitement in the streets of Palermo. For France, though, all they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  crashed the server at some point last week, and when it came back up, the folks at doonesbury.com shut down voting access for those in the mit ... % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact that I'd survived a year with a 4.0(/5.0) GPA -- thank God for pass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT. Initially, I was actually a little confused when I looked online for ... dance last semester when the team hosted a competition at MIT. Teams from

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  of Feb 5!! Go to our website for more info: alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1997/miamireunion.html At MIT, we don't just have 5n year reunions ... fantastic. We stayed at the Venetian, perhaps only second to the Bellagio in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible for ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to preserve its communities. For one, our murals are being painted over, and we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  at the same time, I felt that ESG would make for a less road bumpy ... student: faculty ratio. For freshmen and prospective students, how ... this thought, but at the same time, [annotation note="not a coronavirus

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  write a recommendation letter for you. Also, these professors are at MIT ... look at the message and don't respond. In Spanish as in English, you ... it to make it to yours? If you happen to be in the market for advice

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  projects, finals, senior week, graduation, traveling, and now MISTI for the ... took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... implications of the legislation and the precedent it set for the global tech

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  survived (an almost perfect metaphor for tooling at MIT). Cory and I bought ... post-it note with recommendations for yoga teachers at Prana Power Yoga ... traced with green marker at a kids’ arts and crafts space with my little

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  how this might happen for a moment, and then look at the diagram below ... often inter-connected. At first, I was a bit worried about how I’d fare in ... : However, some of them, usually the problems that were stepping stones for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  for the thirty (!) stitches they gave me at the hospital. I called my ... I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  ten cm of snow for around ten meters. at least it's pretty outside ... ." "got a long day ahead. mondays are stacked for me." after 99 seconds, i ... is the lecture for 6.UAT oral communication. this is an unusual class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... and my PI was in Eastern Time. Studying for the GRE was also very self

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and ... worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and ... workshops where it felt difficult to address flaws directly, for fear of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I ... .67 classes and a UROP all at once again (because come sophomore fall I’d take ... watch yourself break." But I enjoy — of course I enjoy, at this place

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... early (late?) 6:00 at MIT is. As I made the familiar trek past Mac ... belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite ... one event at the Stata Center, which featured - you guessed it - a nerd ... at least one slam or three (or many more), or an open mic (or even both

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011