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• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  MIT, he came up with an answer. Acemoglu's groundbreaking work in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ; Questions Omnibus soon) while at the same time, beginng to work with -- gasp

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  program's history, with previous victories occurring in 1971 and 1972. As a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most common questions here (with help from Dean Marilee)... 1) How many people will MIT take from the waitlist? Is it true that you haven't taken any

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  finding someone to go with, since people tend to get offended when you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  entire applicant pool fairly. Finally, I'd like to leave you with the words

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  award with two others: David Card (of UC Berkeley) and Guido Imbens (of ... kidney exchange “markets” without money, creating environmental policy with ... two numbers (also replicating the process with many, many other people

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  student with a very strong course background in the social sciences but a ... MIT, at least with your scores and exhaustion of the math curriculum ... application from Iowa. Each student comes into this process with their own set

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  Every roommate I’ve lived with quickly discovers my hidden superpower: I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or ... stuck with me: things look different depending on your perspective. Taken

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  now, I have gone to sleep with a gentle tap on my window As the rain ... with the autumnal trees rivals the Impressionist Greats.   Thus, I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I ... experience of cooking a sixteen-dish Thanksgiving with ten college friends

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  the terminal with your 1000 lb bags to get water Check to see if any ... with WordPress for like 30 minutes Board the flight

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  metal cylinder with a cluster of tubes running out of it. Nothing like the ... tour of the lab with all the equipment. (I must add that I did not know

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  revolving door of chalkers started helping out. I made peace with the dust ... decorated it with a giant finish line, and Wyatt and Caroline both did runs

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  in the dining halls. We filled our bags and stomachs with varieties of ... going. But I can keep going too, and share some warm cider with my friends

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  , looking at the above inequality (and replacing $A$ with its units and $\pi ... example of a set with roughly (up to some constant) $N$ points, whose ... with this? Well, we can notice that for all $(x,y,z) \in \mathbb{R}^3

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  collect temperature and cloud data for NASA with the Globe Observer citizen ... got stuck in the snow-mud, and he and his dog Radar hiked with us until

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  [annotation note="ok i kinda messed with the 10 minute chronology of this story ... registration adrenaline decided to combine with my first-snow adrenaline to turn

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  , there are too many great options; with over 300 classes in [annotation ... fall so you can graduate in three semesters with every major? Sure thing ... is this even possible? And what’s with all the biology/math classes? A

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023