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  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  -Germany Global Teaching Labs Program As I write this post, I am sitting in the teacher's lounge trying to hold onto the comfort that I have grasped to ... delightful high schoolers, and interviewing with a reporter from the newspaper

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof. Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  The MIT Career Fair was last Thursday, when three hundred companies ... . While the fair was specifically tailored to graduating seniors looking for ... way through the maze of prospective employers. Some were looking for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... Favorite thing about MIT: The people. That students and staff are engaged in so ... , the place is remarkably fun and laid-back.Favorite things about Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the ... , offered under the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first time how i'll be quite sad leaving this place when i'm gone. the familiar arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus ... , all Stanford students. There are no clouds in the sky. Ever. The statues ... French sculptors named Rodin. Also, unlike the infinite corridor at MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies ... ventured outside behind Baker House, only to get knocked over by the blizzard

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from Wednesday afternoon, November 21 through Monday morning, November 26 for the ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  This week, the new MIT freshman class begins arriving for orientation ... amazing. The students are awesome! Let me tell you more about them... The class includes students from Kansas and from Kenya. The class includes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn't stifling. Today was stifling. Today was sauna in an oven on the sun. Sweat poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  As Snively wrote, school's out for the summer, but that certainly ... has been so sporadic lately. That, and the Sex and the City kick I've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  : Snively, Since you are used to getting up early now, go out to the Boston Market on Saturday and load up on the cherries and avocados, not to mention all the other fruits and veggies available right now. Better still, talk

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist. When our waitlist decisions are finalized, we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the ... liveblog, updating this entry throughout the day with thoughts and stories about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  The first wave of the Next Big Mailing (NBM) has been sent out ... patient). Formally known as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM represents the transition of the newly admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  Korean-American woman who weights 105 lbs. She recently finished 3rd in the ... , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again ... The thermal conversion process is probably the only practical large

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006