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• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... the lives of MIT freshmen? I think people are very curious about what it ... Cormick Hall, with Waciuma at the Pierce Boathouse, and with Evan at his dorm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country, thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... yesterday when thousands of soccer fans streamed onto Hanover Street to cheer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  good part of this week matching MIT student hosts with prefrosh [prefrosh ... lecture hall 54-100 (capacity: 294 persons). Not all hosts were able to ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... enjoying the writing classes and my job outside of class working with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the ... a part of MIT. I applied to be a blogger because I wanted nothing more ... Yesterday, a prefrosh friend of mine sent me this Facebook message: I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  ’s early precursor to films like The Matrix and Tron, World of Wires offers ... [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my humble opinion, the world is comprised of two types of students. Student

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of class offerings that are really interesting: Heavy Metal 101 is turning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You ... a beautiful thing. One of my favorite things that I've done over IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... graduate of MIT who majored in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Mollie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We ... Portlet This portlet will display a thumbnail of a poster, which can be

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... , and it definitely still applies now. I wrote an open letter about how I ... tens of other posts written by tens of other bloggers instead of being so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore ... lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... ? So you may have heard of x-terms, which is a new thing that is starting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they ... Cruise Check out the New England Aquarium Visit the top of the Prudential

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... many of you — students and parents — are concerned about the future

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most likely. My pantry of food resembles that of the Soup Nazi. Anyways, I grab

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018