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• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  me up on my suggestion, writing, "I've got a door for you, hailing from ... Omnibus, so it's time for more odds & ends... The band Hot Hot Heat will play a concert at MIT (for MIT students only, sorry) on Friday night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  these extra materials as they reach our desks. Catching up on some ... for graduate student Y. Graduate student Y wrote this about X ... (say, Senator Foo or Congressman Bar). It's rare for these letters to say

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  November Rule. I recommend these posts for more reading/information on the ... student body, this post is one that I believe may be useful for high ... world. This is unsurprising for a field (again, stereotypically) devoted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . This ended well for both parties - with a PARTY! Pun totally intended ... . Here goes: Zaira ponders: What type of laptop should I get for college ... , Marilee was def using a Macbook for her info session so I know that Macs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  project class has regular checkpoints for a project: either the same project ... can make up a science GIR right now. Let's call it, I dunno, 19 ... week, except for weeks when there's an exam, so there's around ten in all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  it happens once or twice, or when they have good reasons for doing it ... ; it’s mostly when i know for a fact that they have the social bandwidth ... challenging growing up. so when i see people my age who have all these things

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  mentors through this for a month but props to them for putting up with this ... receive $1,000 in seed funding for their project and mentorship from MIT students and faculty throughout the spring semester. Applications for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  fashioned way, like a letter showed up in my actual mailbox outside my house ... celebrate, get that energy out. You deserve it. =) For waitlisted applicants ... summer programs called the "Governor's Schools," and there's one for each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  -In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly ... behind the scenes to open applications and plan for the Fall 2025 STARS ... 20 high school juniors from small and rural towns nationwide to MIT for

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  year. What more can you ask for? Tonight is the [annotation note ... -the-scenes for the capstone projects themselves, and this blog is instead about the ... excited. (watch the livecast here if you want to join us for the ride

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  applying for [annotation note="global teaching labs, a MISTI program that ... for my Lyft in the frigid parking lot of Boston Logan airport, my friend ... . She told me to hurry up. When I walked into my room twenty minutes later

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  normal. Random Hall, for another year, was back in its full music ... dorm for more than a week before we began to notice that some crucial ... ; Most distressingly: no one could find the Milk.  For those of you who

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  when they are looking for some information or advice on transportation in Cambridge and Boston, so keep an eye out for it. Also keep in mind that I am ... ! The Actual Guide Part: 1) Feet – “Best bang for your buck” award

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  horns every second, toss in a few bulls for good measure, and you have ... ;m giving the thumbs-up because we haven’t gotten in an accident ... large number of sustainable livelihoods, including for the rural poor and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... lives up in pictures, detailing the events they attend, the reality shows ... my place. For the first time ever, I told myself, I'd have a true peer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for ... you were willing to knock on enough doors and really fight for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note ... for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal ... almost obligated to blog about what exactly this Nobel Prize was for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  when the Z has the Johnson Ice Rink up (instead of Johnson track for ... for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note ... possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  anxiety and joy, everything jumbled up together, all extreme highs and lows ... 4AM and cry for no specific reason, traitor tears leaking through my ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023