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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won ... Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  powerpoint presentation thousands of miles away. I remember hearing talk around the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... deceive you. Kresge is 1/8 of a sphere. I once walked by it and remarked to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don ... really have to happen?" Those of you who plan to be engineers, perhaps you

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Tomorrow, we will mail out the first of four batches of letters ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for ... different member of our staff will visit different areas of the country. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just ... issues such as suicide. I respect the sentiments of the original poster

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... Class of 2009. Akash, Ben and I had lunch together, and while we were ... , as it turns out, was on campus with most (all?) of the MIT 2009 Early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  is commonly available in high school. However, many of our students ... soups of advanced academic programs. We like to see that students have challenged themselves in high school and have taken advantage of their
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  this. And because of it, I've been thinking a lot about what he said. In ... instances of police brutality and just blatant racism being caught on camera ... been incredibly outspoken. A doesn't-take-your-bullshit kind of attitude

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  list of three things I learned this semester that I didn't learn from my ... saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push ... ="residence exploration, a ton of events during orientation week where frosh explore the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  the view from my window and netflix's view of my window through another window

  

  's a screenshot from the Neri Oxman episode of "Abstract: The Art of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  , please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon ... deadline. Most schools will take letters of recommendation and other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... basement of Senior Haus every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Very few of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you ... sucked. After each round of decisions came out, I hated hearing my name in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro ... I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I ... food I go to the Ocean State Job Lot, one of the best stores for $5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  the last last cohort of bloggers, and if you remember reading it when ... misinformed about their babies, with 179 parents of identical twins mistakenly told that their twins were fraternal and 12 parents of fraternal twins

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  advantage of running around the Charles River (and all the public water fountains alongside) There are lots of smol nerds running around the various MIT summer camps and programs It's time for those of you who might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  ," a night of spoken word, collective art, and informative camaraderie. I ... months. It heartened me to be in that room, with the coolest collection of ... justice instead of problem sets for a night. The week continued. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Fantasy Feast Fantasy foods and costumed friends.

  

  Yesterday evening Random Hall residents prepared a CPW fantasy feast. Below are some of my beautiful costumed friends and some of the food they prepared, photographed by the amazing YQ ‘16. The foods highlighted in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to ... with full kitchens, which I haven't really taken advantage of save for ... journey of "Non-Ramen Cooking in the Kitchen".  The beginning of the summer

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012