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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  , and, of course, score free tickets to movies that people shouldn ... to stage a coup of the vampire empire, which may actually be evil and ... nation's hottest emo bands on the soundtrack. Last night, Shawna and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  , here is a good summer list of restaurants for students (and campus ... /Southern food in Boston, with a lot of culture and attitude. 55 Chester St ... jazz brunches on the weekends, and half-price (cheap!) dinners before 6pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  friendly department (like most of MIT), and our size lets us provide an ... life and technical area of research, electrical engineering or computer ... be incredibly smart and full of great ideas, but so are you. The key is

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  . One of my lifelong goals was to teach a math class and have it on OCW. I ... , for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... analysis: 18.100A, 18.100B, 18.100P, and 18.100Q. A few things of note: i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  an uninterrupted 20 minutes, approx. 9 am, my room on the fifth floor of east campus: outside sounds, sink sounds, door sounds, my sounds use headphones for maximum sense of transported-ness   The ear

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  , a recommendation and/or a transcript — of your Early Action ... take 2-4 business days from the time of receipt to be processed and show up on your MyMIT tracking page. If you think one of your missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion ... (on the MIT 5.0 scale) and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on ... member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  difference. Anyway, I offer you a tale of suspense and... you know, other ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to ... this great, all-powerful piece of plastic, my first name and middle

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  12 hours and counting until CPW. Here are some places where I'll be ... , 3:15pm-ish, Friday Presentation of New Undergraduate Curricula in Course VI (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), 3:30pm, Friday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  the usual business of walking up long driveways and knocking on doors ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  back to my dorm and begin my 18.03 pset. I have no idea what's going on ... Thursday though because . . . On Thursday I have a 9 AM recitation and then ... middle of my Thursday doing random stuff for CPW and then I UROP from 2

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  on a Likert scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is least awesome and 5 is most ... company? A runner's choice of running shoes is a very careful and ... calculate the mean and standard deviation of your votes.

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... and deformed nutshell, is MIT's method of making sure that students take ... brief, wondrous blog of Matt McGann over the summer, I entered a long and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... everything I said. It got so bad that I, in all of my frustration and infinite ... ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the ... engineering and math. Flores will enter the Massachusetts Institute of ... ,000 scholarship and goes on to the national competition, said Clarissa Sandoval

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  biographies of Alia and Matt from RhodesScholar.org (links mine), followed by ... Essigmann, the William R. (1956) and Betsy P. Leitch Professor in Residence of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and a professor of toxicology in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... last couple of years -- our favorite one required scanning a barcode on a box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , and filed. The process of receiving your applications takes time. First ... everything has your name and birthdate on it, etc. Then, each application piece ... scores on your Part 2. I assure you that we will receive these scores, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a ... realize, about yourself and others, at only this level of understanding. But ... feeling of being on the absolute same page with someone else, of being known

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018