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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out ... acceptees to MIT this year. Congratulations! In order to ready the potential ... as soon as they bare their unfed faces on campus, the local alumni

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  what to pack for CPW? Check out the 10 day forecast. Following up on ... , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you ... " (Stanford South?) preview weekend on the most recent episode of Veronica Mars

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... . Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our way back to the selection room, we ran into Rob (another MIT '09), who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  ' values on the events side to try and make it add up, but it doesn't matter ... time if a) you are on track to pass the class, and b) you have difficult ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of ... correct answers to four of the above questions (though we totally guessed on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  mechanical engineering, he went on to work in the MIT Hobby Shop, so that he ... MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  Intelligence. Be sure to play the video on the Peas homepage. Anyway, when Will and his entourage were about to leave, and all the obligatory pictures ... Black Eyed Peas played to a sold-out crowd at the TD Banknorth Garden. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  new room on my hall next week, and I'll try to take some pictures so you ... occupied for the balance of the summer. I have to say -- the weather in California is superior. :-( Time to break out the window air conditioner unit

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  " which they may fill. Prospective athletes to MIT are subject to the same ... MIT is one of the top Division III athletic programs in the country ... interested in playing varsity sports at MIT, you should contact the coach of
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you to seek out the answers for yourself, sending you off on a journey ... common question that emerges on the blogs, to be answered by both ... teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that dream project ... last bid to say goodbye. But what if you held off on all that? Sounds

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  , Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to ... went to Harvard Law (the latest MIT Careers Office statistics have MIT graduates with an admission rate to Harvard Law 1.5 times higher than the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  at MIT but is expected to be learned on the job. She loved her ... the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... survey sent to all the dorm mailing lists asking the residents who feels at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  and I got off-campus quite a bit on the weekends, going to his hometown ... 's like me. 4. Laura said, I turned the webcast on and was so ready to ... TV shows to watch. Adam and I have been eagerly awaiting the season

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  the design of a bioreactor. Basically, the goal of the bioreactor is to ... perfused with different media. Eventually, the goal is to be able to more ... 'm working on a project that somehow has managed to capture everything that I

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  on our journey, one which would take us across Boston and involve the ... when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at ... and without chocolate on top. They fill the puffs with your choice of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  on the Internet, but I need to have time to acquire a power adaptor for ... matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do ... rampant. The clincher was when a friend sent me a link to a post about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  East Movement (FM) to MIT’s Walker Memorial – you know, the same place I took both of my calculus finals. But on February 21st, the building was ... @ MIT with their new song, “Go Ape.” On a similar note, the Student

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  are buzzing... the semester seems to be in full swing. This semester is ... : you have the flexibility to try different majors while at MIT. Granted I would suggest doing your exploration closer to the beginning of your

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010