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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more ... in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] It's familiar. It's even more familiar when a ... front of a television watching an 8-bit blue hedgehog in snazzy red sneakers run into gold rings, I'm sitting in a dark concert hall watching a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  Having read MIT applications for a long time now, I know that MIT applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the course...as a result my course grade was 0.2% higher than the A cutoff ... intention of making this a sappy, nostalgic recollection - I do feel it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the summer between junior and senior year of high school as a carousel operator ... also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  Hamentashen. One is a sweet and versatile triangular dessert, the other is a ... Jeremy Wolfe, who used to teach a wildly popular Intro to Psychology class and is now a teacher in Concourse. (He's on the far left of the Team

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that ... graduate school, and there are a million questions running through my head, but I got hit by a jolt of admissions reality just now. 1. The deadline

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... ,000 resident city-within-a-city, so we rarely had to leave. For my sophomore through senior years, I spent it at a less-exclusive high school where there

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ran away to a meeting. Here's what he emailed me today: Mitra, Where

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this ... with a large table awaiting us. It was a great opportunity to catch up on ... home. We have a varied group with one hailing from Alaska and another

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course, 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  There are a few questions that I've often wondered if people were ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at some point!), so I'll kill a little time by answering them. What's the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  This entry doesn't have much content, it's just a placeholder while I come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone through a bacterial respiratory infection (started before then, peaked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap ... Press has a nice story about "gap years" that has been picked up by news

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle just like the Torino medals. A much more close-up shot. You can see the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I ... entire year. Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... after pulling an all-nighter on a Boeing 757. Way too many dangerous chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what ... However, the good news is that it should be a fairly eventful weekend; MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the ... squarely into a historical context of artistic and creative activities. Much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005