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• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter ... I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status, and I'm just sending pictures of my office. Matt and Ben are doing

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  school to the argumentative essay I just finished writing about the role of ... themselves wrote. And on top of all of that, I get to write. Not just little ... in this corner of the universe with anyone who chooses to listen in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does the Office of the First Year do?

  . The mission of the office is to provide excellent services and programs to catalyze student exploration and access to opportunity, and promote ... The Office of the First Year supports a number of programs that
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  really choose to learn about it. It just sort of happened. In case you ... looking for something to take your mind off of decisions and don't happen to ... scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  concentrators promise to reduce the cost of solar electricity because they use ... turbine pumps water out of a storage volume anchored to the seabed. ORES ... will give remarks prior to the President’s speech. The audience of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  to do it. There are classes of all varieties from bookmaking to ... entry to [annotation note="the Museum of Fine Arts"]the MFA ... I needed to take advantage of every opportunity available to me

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.  One way to ... provide models of the human brain, but it takes a human to apply facts about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  took a flight by myself to somewhere completely new in the middle of exam ... been completely foreign to some of them - and that’s okay. Because making ... campuses have found their way up to the start of classes for this semester, I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of ... to find some way, perhaps long in advance, of talking about ... is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change?

  Model (IGSM), a linked set of computer models designed to simulate the ... prediction. Responding to these changes requires innovative policies that ... political and communications savvy to organize a genuinely global approach
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  Morgan Sheng's lab in the Picower Center. I didn't get to see much of the ... advancement of knowledge comes through an unwavering commitment to the integrity of science We hold as our ultimate mission to understand the mysteries

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... intrigued. When I came to MIT, I knew there would be lots of famous ... 'd expect to hear talk at MIT. But there have been lots of speakers here on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen, President of the Class of 1929 ... committee decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a ... 1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... eventually."]instead of getting back to the people I need to get back to ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  school case of little town blues - that's just not worth it to me. Hey, we ... where you want to go. By itself, I think the T is kind of expensive, but ... offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  , who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to ... serves to amplify the strongest parts of your file. I remember several of ... place to watch the Red Sox-Yankees games. I hope I make it out of New York

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I ... . :-) BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking ... is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm ... giddy, I sent a flurry of e-mails to New House exec, to New House as a ... House, and the thought of having to feed all of them, plus visitors from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... to Midsummer Commons along with a sea of people. I was worried that I ... class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to ... Swinging by the Big Apple this weekend? Come to one of our largest admitted

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014