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• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Shuttle/SafeRide Z Center -- the only place in the winter where I've consistently found ... to work" says Sam '07 Club Passim -- live music Grendel's Den -- the ... coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be ... too many to list, so scroll to the bottom here) MIT Alumni Dinner -- you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 ... -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor ... . (This is where all the magic happens.) Huge kudos again to Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the ... description I just submitted to the events crew: You've spent the last 6 months getting to know the admissions "bloggers" online. Come meet Matt, Ben

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  equipment and vibrates to alert the athlete if their head accelerates in a ... inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest in the world and being in an environment where people are always

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we're going to mail on Pi Day this year. This was indeed the case last year, but we don't yet have a mail date set for this year. Just wanted to clarify

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  Office. In addition to the Career Office, there's also UPOP, a program for ... call from Procter and Gamble alerting me to the fact that I had an interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever ... . Having you in the class would have made it no less perfect. But the numbers

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... can get to [annotation note="now that tumblr is effectively dead, are we still allowed to use the -blr suffix?"]studyblr[/annotation] levels of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter. “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... My apologies to Clement Clark Moore. ‘Twas the night before finals

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  the time we said our goodbyes in May, The Double was already a space in ... events for all of the newcomers to our building. And while that promise ... to lock into the double before classes came around. As soon as we got

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  's historic World Series win in 2004. In responding, he made reference to the ... D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this ... TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate ... arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  years ago. While there are 120 girls in AXO, there is only room for 25 to ... : As this is the first big event that I planned, I got to learn the ... the same event, you know it's the place to be and be seen =) Last night

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  that there is no reason to apply five months in advance, let alone two ... can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... universities to which you'll be applying (including the financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... ’ll be using infrared data to learn how the Milky Way formed. But before I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  to happen: The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 ... sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same ... is ready to be evaluated by the admissions officers. Then, finally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  account - feel free to follow me @MikeyMIT. So far it's been mostly text ... along the way. (As for the other stops in Texas - Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston, and El Paso - Kim has been hanging out there!) Well, it's off to the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application ... business days to process materials at the busy Early Action and Regular ... don’t panic. While it is important to submit your application on time