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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so ... Public Policy, Public Finance, and Public Economics. Funny story: Student ... restaurant, and walked around the mall for a bit. 20 minutes later, Debbie

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  (among other options) included Chancellor Phil Clay and MIT Vice President ... finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... caught the attention of many reporters and resulted in stories in a variety

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

  Likelihood

  

  top choices with notes of praise and hints of acceptance letters and ... some good news before the competition does. This courtship, which can ... differs from many of the schools who employ them. At MIT, we read and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  and try to fall asleep. unfortunately my neighbors are having a lengthy conversation in our suite lounge, and it’s just loud enough that it’s preventing ... interview (that’s what happens when you go to college during covid) and i was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  , merit and need for news briefings and specific technical information. Just ... required core classes in science, history, and math. One at a time, teachers and students stood up in front of us weary workday parents, who were

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  a news post about a man named Philando Castille, and the comments are ... and menacing and lazy lives. I go on my NewsFeed and I see my black ... luggage bags, rolled into a car with my five siblings and my mom and my dad

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  walking and pulling my bike along, but we made it! In other news, we ... comfortable riding a bike, I was nine years old, and In the past decade I have ... control of the bike and threw myself off before it fell into a rock pit) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out ... a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  major news on my end since the last time we caught up is that I got my EMT training and have started working on the MIT-EMS ambulance. On your end: CPW ... narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once ... already secured one, and I'm pretty sure they basically have the same lab ... 'm sure sometimes undergrads and grad students work together on them. Right

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the other half was taking it in another room and thirty minutes into the hour-long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter - besides the multi-dozen dollar salary, and the luxurious corner office dorm room, and the stubborn ExpressionEngine blogging platform with which I am

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  going on in like 20 cities around the world... and it sounds like just the ... throw the idea out there but lo' and behold, Caroline '11 had already suggested it and *BOOM*, the meetup was scheduled around the pillow fight

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  sun is setting sooner and sooner. It's getting really cold, with the ... going on four years now, and yet it still surprises me when it hits. On ... sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  : James "Big Jimmy" Roberts and Howard Brown. My annual donation to MIT ever ... 's Boston Globe had the news of the passing of another special member of our ... Jimmy and Howard Brown. The part of the article that most touched me was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  dedicating $150 billion over 10 years for a new clean energy R&D and technology fund. This initiative represents "the largest and most important investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... freshman was lucky, and only had two finals (8.022 Electricity and Magnetism, and 18.03 Differential Equations). Since freshmen are on pass/no record

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  all of the news cameras. At last count there was FOX, CBS, CNN, and ESPN ... during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch ... Tube. He searched for "Improv Everywhere Best Buy" and showed me a hilarious

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  they need to go to their waitlist or not, and if so, how many students ... first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second ... colleges recognize and accept this. If I'm admitted off of the waitlist, do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  Love” by Huey Louis and The News, which begins: I was walking down a one ... in the room. “Madeline,” one of them said, “meet the Logs.” And then ... seat for you right here.” Madeline sat down on his knee and they

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013