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  Match Game

  

  seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.

  

  Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to take 11.025J D-Lab: Development, since I have studied "issues of ... . Focuses on physiological and anatomical studies of the mammalian nervous

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen ... , but there are also pictures of the ruckus he caused on campus back in ... state something: our advising seminar might be one of the coolest classes

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  , choking on flying needles of acid precipitation, battled onwards across the ... of Boston's air pollution. Soaked in a brew of life-shortening chemicals, I wrestled down the nightmare-inducing plethora of health concerns

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... lot of it. =) This schedule was on the wall near the front entrance of ... fridges in the snack room, we found that one of them wasn't turned on. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes ... -overs and backwards skating. Unfortunately, on the 3rd day of class, I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  .017 Urban Space and Society (New) Units: 3-0-9 Focuses on how the spaces of ... . Concentrates on selected problems such as the welfare economics of "health" as a ... on control design. Extensive use of computer-aided control design tools

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  The Barkowitz Blog, which is both clever and informative on the topic of ... down in the Admissions Records Office, checking in on things there. Today ... buckets of mail, plus all of the online application pieces. It's pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  evening sky slathered on the grey-blue brink of dusk. As I traipsed through ... Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  most recent classes was a multidisciplinary course on the concept of ... took this picture while waiting my turn on Zipline #4 of the tour. I ... My summer internship ended on Friday, August 17. Today was the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of ... great lecturer that he was one of two people ON THIS PLANET (or at least ... of Prof. Silbey happened during his lecture on Valentine's day - one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... you are banging out songs on a mbung-mbung. My sister took one photo of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place ... instead of a test so we're only counting three. Last day of school was on a ... Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very, very, very long

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  of the arts scholars on the trip had, and gave us a synopsis during the ... [by Xenia Antipova '13] The very first time I heard of Richard ... boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  socioeconomically diverse. 2. There is a quota on the number of international ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ’s kind of crazy how four years ago on this exact day, I was deferred from ... of strangers whose perceptions have some bearing on my future felt ... throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  extent you're looking to explore on your own.A team of admissions staff and ... will be on campus, so it would actually be pretty irresponsible if all of ... probably won't see much in the way of tooling, of students working on problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  before." Taking her up on her offer, I pored over many of the pamphlets in ... debate. Just like every political debate, the "Constitutionality" of ... year. Since then, Prof. Maier's book had gone on to win: "10 Best

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011