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  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  . Maier's book, I knew I had to get it. Having spent a whole semester poring ... (D-NY) suggested using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as a legal requirement for the government to continue paying its financial

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . They [had] decided to forgo a trip to Toscanini's so they could get home ... 's "Under the Dome" Open House. To put that into perspective, hosting this ... , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered ... to Dr. Bigelow’s address. Then followed Felton, and Mr. Savage was importuned for a word, which was characteristic, as usual. I was urged to speak

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get ... New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of consciousness between an otherwise unbroken day of naps to share with you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I ... over to England to visit a childhood friend. I've spent the past week with her roaming all over London, getting all paparazzi on palace guards

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  States take 4-7 years, is that coursework is required to get American ... 'm senior now heading off to math grad school next fall). I really appreciate ... what subject you are studying. I went through Course 18, to study the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  , you'll be getting ready to take a holiday break from some really amazing ... 't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but ... attracted to MIT's campus culture, I've found these students often are also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  applications, and knowing that one year from now, you'll be getting ready to take ... else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but occasionally some students ... are out there. For those students who are really attracted to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... Plano West Senior High seniors will have the chance to make a difference

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  together, and we're getting to know each other pretty well by now) and catch ... I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... a speed-dater would agree to a real date. It was a good sign, Madan ... talk. And I'm not the only one. This seems to be one of the key rules to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just kind of relax," said Martha Merrill, dean of admission and ... .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  : From the way fat patients (like me) get denied appropriate care to how ... returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on time due to mental health issues, but I’m thriving, and I’m a health

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  we got back, we dispersed onto various couches and chairs to get some ... 153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  minute, to get a glimpse of their current lives. Chances are, they will ... necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs with a fervor of a child who has just learned to read. I am excited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to ... Schiff's solemn-as-hell-looking Quantum Mechanics book to the Virgin ... quite understanding two section, getting it crinkly from salt water (too

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  Gruder gets it. Satire is supposed to leave a mark. Advice about applying to ... being said about you. Your essays are the only time that you get to speak ... : Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  were lucky enough to win fourth prize, which means that we get some nice ... website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You input the melody to a song, and then it automatically generates a harmony

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  ="110380" image2="110379" /] MIT—I hated it. I loved it. I couldn’t wait to get out ... some independent video production on the side. Then I came “back home” to Admissions, helping to run these very blogs with Petey while also working at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014