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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  plans on commercializing anti-aging research, bringing therapies out of ... Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the "20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows." Though actually numbering 24, all of the Fellows

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  Alley," but to make matters confusing all of the dorm addresses are on ... how to do a bunch of 2.005 so I don't fail it next semester 3) Work on ... Diffusion, that's what's happening now. Finals, all of them, are

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... ="78902" /] These trips took up a lot (if not all) of my weekends, and so on the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  "][/annotation] i miss the tower of plushies on the beanbag. i miss that there would ... note="one of the largest lecture halls on campus"]26-100.[/annotation] i ... have taken so for-granted before. and even on top of that, the math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  with the light blue of the wall to the right (which I later used on that ... . What should I name the new room? Examples of other rooms on Burton 1 ... At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... . Levitt teaches a class on the economics of crime at University of Chicago

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... to do in Cali. In other words, I had to find a job.... On the eve of x ... student holiday on Friday so people can focus on finding employment. It

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website ... of interesting things you can work on. I have a pretty generous ... computing environment on the campus computers), the email servers, all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  good and ALL the seasons of rick and morty. all 17 of us on the new ... 1-4 again on my own, and then binged all of season 6 pt. 1 when it ... 'm working on a whole bunch of projects this semester, and every week that i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  dish and add a small amount of salt. Cook on high in the microwave for ... . If you want, prepare waffles in the toaster and put the meat on top of ... that there are zillions of crockpot meat and chicken recipes on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been ... busy for students, too, as today was the third day of classes at MIT. Two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  all back with new entries. Cool. On the topic of blogs, does anyone ... Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all ... answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  came out of that class. This year I also joined a Christian group on ... what I did in my free time there was a ton of things to do. I was on TV ... guys on my first year. Think of this blog as kind of a predraft. If there

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  on gyroscopes, gas theory, and Gauss’s law. Gyroscopes make up one of ... Inside of Merck On Thursday, we walked into Lichtenbergschule and ... graders celebrate the end of the year by pulling a prank on the school and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  on the other side of Thanksgiving; a couple sleepless nights in the ... .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he was perfectly willing to spend an hour of his time today explaining it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  to be traders on Wall Street. I think the class of 2012 t-shirts say it ... sight to my father on the other end of the phone: "Wait, there ... , big yard, and law students? The one whose t-shirts hog all the space on

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  hear some of her history: about the "good ol' days" when she lived on 52 ... over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... saving time didn't help me leave the office before dark. Most of you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007