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  Ups and downs and extras

  

  : Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I have to admit, the Pittsburgh ... neighborhood where you'll find CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, is actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  the first one: Not the same few colleges: The State University of New ... the nearest major research university to where I grew up, for some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  colleges and universities, the high-priced independent counselors, the test ... of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left ... discipline that only the bedbugs could appreciate. It was sixteen degrees ... -one degrees Celsius. The beds were clean, finally, as they should be. A grey fog

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... as a boss, or the degree to which he hamstrung developers with capricious censorship in the App Store, or even the degree to which he was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  !"]self-care and destress routine. [/annotation] Watching Steven Universe The Movie ... of Steven Universe The Movie singing live at New York Comic Con ... . Watching all of Caleb Hyles Steven Universe Covers We found a very nerdy

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  From EC to Trinity Hall Last year First East was graced with a wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An enthusiastic 6-1 major with a propensity to semi-conductor electronics, Rob was

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  open to students at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, University of Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which ... other. Students do not apply directly to the university, but rather to

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  Creasy at the Johns Hopkins University (a fantastic school, btw) for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  like to believe that scores are the key to entry into university, but

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  America's candy universe, with 32 candy factories (including those for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  "Globalization" (University of California Press, 2004), Professor Jenkins writes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  presidential election, Massachusetts public schools, university riots in the '60s

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

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  , but will require writing scores the following year. The university will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of emphasis on undergraduate education. There are 10 Nobel Laureates, 26 Mac
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018