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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  .  You have many aunts. One of them is your father's sister, Askale. The rest are her sisters, The Little Sisters of Jesus. Askale is a sister of ... it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you don't have time for that, you can read the summary report, which is ... . :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected ... The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize for Girls is the country's preëminent math competition for young women in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  movie adaptation of the book about the MIT Blackjack Team. Kevin Spacey is producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught ... entitles Everybody Loves A Math Joke is now the most popular post ever on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of ... and comments. Changed the URL to 3-107.com, which is a lot easier to deal with than http://web.mit.edu/benjones/www/blog. (3-107 is the room

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  seriousness, maybe this post is giving people the wrong impression. The first thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds It's crunch time for college decisions.

  

  With 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  : "Today, 3/3/09, is square root day, which only occurs nine times each century. The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... online reputation, BrandYourself is definitely the way to go. Romain Vak ... conferences like this not only because of the people I meet but because of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive ... January -- the intermediate period between winter break and the spring semester -- numerous for-credit classes are on offer. The full first semester

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Watsonville. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is rated the #3 family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted ... could tune in. Below is the email from President Reif describing the event. Alert readers may notice that one of the speakers is former

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  my body, rising like flood waters. What if it's not the same? What if ... I was going to treat this differently. How this was not the same. I ... about you, since I guess I'm one of the few people that actually is in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  at the moment. But seriously, the breadth is absolutely astonishing ... , the class is about making games using a framework called Love. One of the things that isn't suggested is that it's also an intro to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research. As is typical of MIT, the work is ... of MIT's Center for Cancer Research is the principal investigator on a ... program, is the principal investigator on a grant of the same magnitude that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I ... were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative ... expression, "the cure for cancer is research" throughout the corridors at MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  the mascot is the beaver, “nature’s engineer.” I know the social Baker ... Boston side of the river, everyone is bound together by a love, or at the ... -based article short but sweet. Enough with the excuses, onto the introduction! My

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  WIth CPW 2012 just a few days away, the whole school is getting ready to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... and math levels are encouraged to participate. This year the date is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  the interview, you should know that Lou Dobbs is a television ... A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008