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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... actually is rather good, I just thought I'd share a few thoughts with you ... over by a bus?) #29 - Hey, how about when they shut down the Harvard

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  Update for Admitted students: We've been hearing reports that a few ... , simply send a message to [email protected] and we'll be happy to take ... '12 had created a job-awesomeness formula for me. To understand it, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  done a "remarkable job" in that capacity. "Under his committed leadership, the office successfully completed the 2007-2008 admissions cycle--a cycle that saw a record number of applicants and which we have every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... generally hosed, though. So some of you have been asking a lot about "psets ... school assignments (you might just get 5 problems, with a) b) c) d) e) f

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  anything to say, so I'm going to do a google search, find some misconception ... wading through it* OMG guys! You made a CollegeConfidential thread about ... here, I've only been officially blogging for a couple of months, and I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I have an older sister who is a pretty cool human bean while simultaneously ... - like Sam, who does a beautiful Flight of the Conchords impression, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... about the Therac-25, the X Windows System, multi-threading, and a couple ... projects, where we're presented with a fairly real world problem, and we have

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I ... enough to know what he's doing, a rare combination. I think I'll be able to ... gather, it has a lot to do with internal forces of materials (twisting

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  cadets a few weeks ago. It is statements like these that make me very ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the ... simply as an avenue to become a pilot and to pay for school. I wasn

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  see my comrades and I could sense that their resolve matched my own. A shrill tone broke the silence and my adrenaline spiked. In a frenzy, we coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC, it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help ... assume a challenging leadership role early on, and an opportunity to serve

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the ... to create a model for global engagement for students and their partner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  blue and green. By now I think there should be a category called "e ... . We'll view the movie "Pi", while simultaneously enjoying a dinner of pizza pies. To top the evening off we'll have a Pi competition; the person

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys. Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be ... around here and if you want to get around, you need a vehicle. I guess that ... to go wherever you want, whenever you want, even if that involves a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  , Georgia. It's very strange. The first few times I went back to a parental home from my college home, I felt like I was sliding into a different role, a different persona. There was who I was at MIT, and there was who

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  CL South junior goes to MIT a year early Date March 27, 2006 By KAREN ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... days a week to ride Champagne, a 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood that she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  Name: Mollie Burgoon Hometown: Pickerington, Ohio (a two-horse town ... . Susumu Tonegawa, who's a Nobel laureate, taught 9.301, and Rudolf Jaenisch, who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  , startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a ... genomics research, had the following teaser on the front page: A Later Split ... Nature. The Times has a very good explanatory graphic: It's definitely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  stupid story about how I gave blood or ate at a foodtruck or stepped on a ... all of your concerns about MIT and thus help me become a better blogger ... anyone at MIT own a BMX bike? ANYone?" I actually know a few people in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006