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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  ) fraternity at MIT. I never met Mr. Jackson, but the reverence with which the ... Institute of Technology fraternity said. He gave them a connection with the ... some direction in chats with him. "Not that Jack would expound on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  like MIT. We have a gym, a pool, a kitchen with free breakfast (including ... -based advising groups you in the same house with people who have the same advisor ... your advisor meets with you around twice a week to teach your seminar

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  -A student. She walked into the class with a firm grasp of calculus concepts ... calculus class with the same level of mastery as Etta. In fact, on the same ... - because she finished with an A. What if, instead, we measured performance

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately ... with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison and Bach cantatas. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  sandwiches with out-of-this-world names after political figures ("The Dick ... - Play DDR in the game room - with Nicole '10 and Yoni '10 last night after ... 's nothing wrong with New House - plenty of great people live there. It just

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  great fun to attempt to say. 3:00 PM: Trek with Keri to building 26 for 8 ... granola bar in a room with computers. 3:32 PM: Professor moves back to ... introductory physics. 3:55 PM: Leave class with Keri and Cristen to get meds and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  -related updating now that I'm back on campus--I've been busy running errands with Sam ... , with myself as the tare, to carefully measure out my luggage and make ... did with Spanish. 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms I: I was really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  totally crazy. A year later I e-mailed her with a peer-reviewed paper ... than the next best price, or unless you have something else to do with a ... few sights in London. OH WAIT! I also came up with another commercial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  First, I want to thank everybody who left their good wishes with ... Jamaica with Rose '05 and Swapna '05), and I can't wait to lie on the beach ... courses (such as BE or chemE with biotrack). Most biology-related majors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy ... significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... MIT grad school now, don't expect to get out with a PhD in less than 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  It looks like I've already been outdone with this entry; I must say ... story short, the clerk got Ruth's order mixed up with mine and instead of ... rounds of competition, since that's all you sing with the Pops. If so, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  stressed with descriptions of how the project was supposed to work, what ... architecture with an urbanist perspective that stresses the cultural and ... meets with 5.48J, 7.88J, 10.543J) Prereq: 7.05 or 5.07 Units: 4

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  matched with MIT" to equal the "available spaces"? Question 4: And if there ... with MIT" than number of available spaces, then how is such comparison ... target number of admitted students. So, we repeat the process, with more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in ... ,000 days is a much longer time than three weeks, with a greater variety of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  posting the notes from the trip, lightly edited, with accompanying pictures ... trip totals seventy-eight hours of travel, with a four-hour layover in ... , one of the South Station pigeons has just…left its leavings with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and ... note="I wonder how that'll hold up with inflation"]$20, 20 years from now ... that make sense with where I am now. i. ambition Now, in high school

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  to put them all up, and then I thought I might share with you what I ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write ... with it. I found the postcard itself in a box on the second floor of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  Today, I have a great idea. Recently I had a conversation with a ... ’t have to). My experiences with him were my best academic experiences of ... other reason than I was too anxious about zooming alone with a complete

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT, was to create murals with ... end, with the collaborative effort of 25 artists, 6 animators, 20 painters, and some coders, they were able to fill a 200-foot long wall with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  a this converstaion be a two-way street, with our posts and your ... Mikalye, with their interview thoughts. First, Greg: I'm an EC (second time ... , and if not, you should contact MIT with any follow-up questions, or to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006