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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  Even though I am rarely directly asked this question, I know it ... you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... , darn it. Being a biology major and dataphile and Excel-lover, I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... interesting rather than what's easiest. So, of course, since I exhibit ... what I had due this week: Monday -- nothing Tuesday -- 21A.260 paper on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  I've had some great conversations over the past few weeks with folks in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... , and online classes. I'm very excited about what Richard, Dave, and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a ... ) I headed up into the senior room for the GHAMAS school visit. Robbed

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were ... throughout the meeting -- thank you for sticking it out. I hope the meeting was ... and times to schedule meetings, and I was uneasy about having a meeting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  Today while running westward at sunset, I was nearly blinded by the ... . Anyway, I wondered if I could somehow jog fast enough that the sunset would be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  Very frequently, we are asked about the humanities and arts at MIT. I ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a ... deep. (Yes, I do know that Chris Vu passed the first round of auditions for American Idol 2, but I don't think he got to appear on television as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the ... special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  I had a great time last week at ISEF. This is what it looked like ... awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the students/projects I wanted to visit during public hours, and I sadly made it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  mit_hopefulgirl asks, "I was wondering if MIT actually sends out "likely admit" letters for RD applicants before the actual deadline? I know ... not go out until April. So, in a sense, I can understand the urge to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  Yes, several days without blogging. I'm sure you've been waiting with bated breath. Where have I been? Well, for the past ten minutes, I was ... file. Before that, I've been catching up on email and phone calls. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  I'm sitting on my couch with my friend Jeff (who, after graduating ... reggae?)... awesome! Shinhwa's "Brand New" is #1 this week (I know you like them, DrinkableYogurt). I need to give a shout out to two of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... travel season, we'll prepare to read your applications. I suspect we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with my friends. We chose Hawai'i because it was close to my family and my ... culturally rich places in the world. My weekdays were essentially the same. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Upon admittance, I dedicated a fairly serious and borderline ... for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note="I've never gone through with any of my plans, I just love making them. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ...   Amber  Ali Audrey Kano '25 I felt profoundly small. The world was changing right before my eyes and there was nothing I could do about it. At

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  i. recently i was thinking about my relationship with other people ... friend. i was pretty confused, so i asked on twitter:  “a dilemma I’m currently thinking through - when I write (or do any other public work), how

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  and then besides watching traversing the MIT-verse? I asked a bunch of ... !! Scrapbook!! play w a dog!! Audrey ’24- I enjoyed going on runs and wandering around town checking out random shops that I’ve always known existed but

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  things that you don't need to sign up for. I went into this IAP with no ... meant I had so much more freedom to be spontaneous than during the ... Natural History. When my friend asked me if I wanted to go along, I said

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022