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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  video was to compete, I would have to get a great view. Shuffling my way ... university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  : Anyway, I click on the e-mail and see this: Subject: To Blog About A Dream ... finally I woke up with a start. I wonder what it's supposed to mean ... ! </Monkey Story> In Talking to a Physics Major Another night

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts ... Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve ... most individual entries have a relatively short half-life - that is, the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  completely unrelated to his class and made himself incredibly available as a ... department] with Prof. Nittai Bergman. We tried to find a way to analyze how ... Name: Anjum Sharma Hometown: Perkasie, PA Degree and Minor: 15 with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... take a different perspective on this problem. I'm going to see this situation as a learning experience, a chance to learn more about the cells I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT ... from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA ... , chemical engineer trained at MIT, world-class sailor, and devoted father. A

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  year's 10,466. Down the line, the statistics are nearly identical to last ... about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including ... . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  welcome to a special CIS Starr Forum, "The Big Question: How and When to ... I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next ... will play a concert at MIT (for MIT students only, sorry) on Friday night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  intended to distribute his TV station in Atlanta (then called WTCG) over satellite to cable operators across the US, wanted to use the call letters ... an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  - that somehow it's a victory for every human being. So, I managed to ... looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... Sudan, etc. While reading an article, I happened to sit up straight, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  and haven't won a World Series since 1917 so I figured I had to take ... have been going to White Sox games since I was four years old and have a ... I grew up in Elgin, IL and I'm a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few ... logging in to MyMIT. Students who have completed their applications by ... understand your financial situation more completely, please send a letter

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  -'10). O is "undeclared sophomores". Forgot to list CMS though (16 students). =/ Hahaha it's actually a pretty hard to read graph, but it's sequential by ... world to self-study (and also serves as a great repository of past exams

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of ... in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a ... philosophies on admissions, financial aid, and more. Each session, including Q&A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  While You Wait… ...why not play Brawl?

  

  , March 15 (Pi Day + 1). Best of luck to all of you! 2. Super Smash Brothers ... just say w00t? In commemoration of this momentous event, with a nod ... . Although I've yet to see the hack for myself, as I've been working in my room

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a double-major in 7A ... , writing and editing science content for the show, but a few days ago she went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  There's a story from the MIT News Office today about my friend Joanne ... as Freshman Class Vice President. After graduating in 2003 with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  camera to take a picture with birthday boy Albert. What was I doing at ... /14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the ... of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005