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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  of the year has passed, and now the days begin finally to lengthen ... until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out ... , Kentucky, at my mom's house. I'll be staying here through the end of the APO

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to ... president; and those most impressed by his summer job -- as an intern for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  of geeks, and suddenly remembered that this was the night of the super ... Farrelly brothers). There were many great shots of Boston, and I thought the ... similarity, I suppose, is between the long-suffering fans of Arsenal and of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ("non-linear optics," "top of the class"), Colin Farrell's secret agent in ... Contact (played by Jodie Foster in the film) Taz "Rat" Finch ("top of his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  , and go to bed in the morning. At the start of the year, two friends came ... , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to five hours to do anything I please. The lack of social distractions make

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I ... one and stuck it in the pan, then rotated the first one to a second face. Since I make the meatcubes in batches of six, the first cube was browned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  related to technology, who all descend on Las Vegas the first week of every ... the city I grew up in) and over 3,600 companies, including 82 of the ... externing. I decided to eat my cake and have it too, so I missed the first

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  I know folks love to see the numbers, so we've updated the Freshman Class Profile page for this year's incoming class, the MIT Class of 2012 ... For the MIT class of 2012 Gender Male 54% Female 46% Ethnicity &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  semester, and the first one I ever participated in. A lot of time I spent ... biggest chunk of the stack belongs to 21W.022 Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography. Most of the stack is a bunch of reading

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... cool events. On the Friday afternoon of every Spring Weekend, you'll find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  the purpose of documenting East Campus culture and history before the ... , and readings; however, the main focus of the class was research. We ... Campus history — and even a minecraft rendition of the parallels, including

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

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  portraits of past directors (Laplace seen at left) and Louis XIV, who had the ... we use it to account for the speeds of gas and stars in spiral galaxies ... , and along the way, I got to make lots and lots of plots. I spent my

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  , each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and ... brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... -3 weeks of work, meetings, and emails into a tight abstract). At the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I ... profs, reading reviews, and printing dozens of pages of fact sheets. In ... things (I remember seeing the display at the beginning of the semester and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  some of his new pieces, and last week, I went to the legendary Scullers ... the robust full-bodied roastiness of my favorite black tea, and also ... who wake up late and then go to class the rest of the day. Multiply that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  to Jenny's playlist and let it help you escape the samsara of the ... the information and creating new assumptions and analyses about u btw ... decisions for the Class of 2028 will be released Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my ... , and owns some of the weirdest mailing list names you've ever seen They ... submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known). There were many excellent

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... , rec letters, and the Statement of Purpose. The SoP is kind of like the ... voice, stories, and dreams are going to be perceived by the committee of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  , towards the end of this student's senior year, a small skirmish took place on the dorm's e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in the dorm. Things got heated, words were exchanged, and then this

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  Madrid, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Through the madness of MIT, savoring ... sane among the challenges of MIT, and I think that's the biggest reason ... I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010