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• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  first impression of Manhattan was cemented by the shockingly audacious ... like pop-up ads delivered by Godzilla In search of internal peace and ... blogger extraordinaire by night, would consider one of the best meals in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  ! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy ... befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Admissions officer. CONGRATS LILLY YOU ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. WE ALL

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... entire human genome, so that we now know the location of all human genes ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  series by Orson Scott Card.  Unlike many of the MIT students that I know, I ... time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references ... 's Today's Big Thing: And, of course, the Pi Song: And actually, if you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  geeks out as I visit the National Gallery of London to see works by Saurat ... years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited ... all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I ... encouraged to attend by Tina (my host). My favorite was the parody of Justin ... By Emily Zhao '12 Hey, my name is Emily. Sorry this guest entry is

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  office by checking out the concert by the Chorallaries. Hundreds of people ... /musical pun name only rivaled by the MIT Logarhythms). [This is my second live ... ago] A few of the numbers they've done tonight: White Flag (Dido

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  -themed menu complemented by a spasm of last-minute surprises: stir, simmer ... over honey walnut bread, chased by burgers under smothering spoonfuls of ... bloom of forgiveness into stomach and heart embittered by 2.5 hours of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the cool stuff they make. (Sponsored by Make magazine, of course.) There ... :00 pm. You can see it on the schedule here. By the way, Chris P (King of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  , 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson ... cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American culture." Second, the Boston Globe had this photo and caption today: A ton of snow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  've passed all of my classes, so that means I am officially done with ... ? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts, but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  I have multiple things to admit here. 1. My arms kind of hurt from ... . In my defense, I'll say that I'm a lot less of a drama queen than I was ... from Pittsburgh, visited a bunch of his friends (including Mikey in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  bedtime by a couple of hours. To first order, I'm sleeping as I type this ... free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test book, glanced at the first page, and felt my face melt into a puddle of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"... Favorite commercial: Intel and its support of ... programs, including a nice shot of MIT's own Elena Glassman '08 winning the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  Boston Public Library - Venue of the Class of 2020 Ring Delivery photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the (almost) halfway point of getting through MIT. It marks many psets and exams

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  username/password recovery process, please email [email protected] with ... intergalactic radio broadcast. However, following the release of admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my coursework this semester, as represented by some notes from each class: 16.06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General ... ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006