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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  tears of frustration, they crystallized on my cheeks and shattered one by ... started off like this: Prof. Durand: Put on these diffraction glasses. Yuzhi ... you tried on at the store sometimes look awful when you get home. Also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  effort towards deciding on a name that was more suiting and suave than "W1 ... needed to renovate W1 just wasn't as easy to get our hands on. So the whole process was put on hold until further notice. Thankfully, MIT had just

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  over 16 weeks. On the other hand, MIT has two 14-week terms, separated ... to take on 15+ hours of lecture a week (although probably not attending ... for one of the seemingly infinite student groups on campus. At Cambridge

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  has lived in London for the past eight years. Though currently on ... . David plugged in his axe, amp, and mic, cranking up every dial. I put on ... -Without-Borders trip to Uganda, blogging throughout them all. She's on the varsity crew

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... -off for the summer months. I just got back from Alaska. More on that (with ... -1200 words on the Internet. We have found that students who are already

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  brain turn on and off as people think different thoughts. We have already ... revolutionary, most life-changing research going on anywhere in the world. I ... Prof. Kanwisher's speech on Friday -- what questions might you want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  -so-famous works are shown on the projector screen …and we talk…about it… I’m hoping that as the lectures go on, the “mass culture” portion will be adequately ... happy that this class is not graded on a curve, which means what I give is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  on New Year's Eve. Now you need to understand that we have always done ... hundreds upon hundreds of pieces based on artistic masterpieces. The best part of the tradition however was starting a puzzle on New Year's Eve and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  't yet shown up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and ... Admissions date stamping, and sorted into different piles depending on what ... , Sofia takes the folders on the trip upstairs to the admissions officers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  modeling it. Next on the agenda was helping with the food fight, an ... and decide which ones they may like to live on. Conner 2, my floor, went ... table up on the stage by the student center, act like we knew exactly what

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  , and manage to look awesome every day when they show up (on time!) for ... (which is often). I should really cut down on the amount of bacon I eat ... in photographs on the rare occasion when I am in front of the camera

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -valedictorians set for MIT Originally posted on: Friday, May 29, 2009 by Adam Freeman ... cheered her sister on last week when Taylor was named Collier County ... Community School of Naples, both were on the Mu Alpha Theta team, were co

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  ), maybe because you can buy a cool stick that they brand at every station on ... never met before and he had met on Sunday, and they were hard. core. Oh ... halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  (dmcowen at the usual) by 5pm on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 and provide the ... post regularly on any admissions (or related) forums such as College ... involved with on campus.‚Ä® Let us know your living group. For freshmen

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  has nothing to do with the above. I have been spending too much time on ... grammatically incorrect. I know that as the queen of run-on sentences, I'm not one ... test and you can't answer half the questions on your first pset. All we

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  fraternity on campus, but without the ties of sisterhood that bind the women I now live with on our campus. According to the job description, RAs serve ... on that tradition. A colleague asked me the other day how I liked

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  work with faculty on any number of important projects, such as the MIT ... the White House on Monday, MIT President Susan Hockfield joined ... 40-to-1 return on investment." In the same way that President

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  eavesdrop on a ridiculous conversation you're having with a third party. I ... toy design. When not working on school work it's reasonable to assume ... for your summons and eagerly await hanging on your every beautiful word

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... 'm Englishly allowed to say that, but whatever), in case you haven't been on Facebook in like, the last month, there's this thing going on where you write

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... use without being in danger of my setting them on fire. Oh. Right. Pre ... really well on the SATs without much effort, but that's about it.) Anyway

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009