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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  observations here in Cambridge and my two years at MIT, there is clearly ... beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what ... -brand entrepreneurial and innovative spirit, my exploits in the Mathematics department

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

    ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was ... vegetarians it's wrapped in a bacon weave and the recipe is from a guy named Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  e-book reader and put off buying it, but it won’t stop the Kindle 3, 4 ... can only keep going, or we wouldn’t be where we are today. IN ... back to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in less than 2 weeks. What

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  (notably the housing website) I’ll summarize the experience briefly. After ... each individual dorm in an attempt to showcase their culture. You get to rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... questions about what the company is looking for in its candidates. Before I ... . International company: You’ll be working on your own, but be prepared to work in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2 ... feeling less confused than you started. But in Sustainable Energy we learn lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

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

  

  always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things British. In between correcting our pronunciations of Sixth and Herb he ... did this mean getting to spend some time in Europe but it also meant a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• 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 ... Laureate Frank Wilczek. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 at the ... the audience, and he recites his sonnet, Virtual Particles in this talk

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below ... *stunning* rings, we had dinner in an adjacent room. There were a bunch of stations serving different food, one of which served mashed potatoes in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  . The group will gather in Dr. Hockfield's reception area in 3-208 at noon ... stand in long lines in the Stata Center, and have lunch with students give ... invited to have lunch, there was clearly a 100% chance that there would be a

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... Math website: CrowdMath is an open project that gives all high school students ... 're interested in math research (or are interested in becoming interested in math

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... show today’s MIT, in all its living, breathing color. We’ve already heard from many in early focus group testing who told us they loved the

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite was blue-masked, then another guy in my suite appeared one day with a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  engine called "Wolfram Alpha." It's not like Google in that it doesn't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does ... about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  too! Check out the website above ... secondary options? I have some in mind, but none of them seem to match up to ... help, and the great insight you provide to those of us looking in from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a ... -like delivery, which pretty much falls right in line with my sense of humor. Then ... extremely clear when they write their own bits. I think at one point I was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  Magazine In Style--featuring tips on buying your own helicopter and $5000 ... The Dick Van Dyke Show called "The Night The Roof Fell In" where the same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  ” (in the eternal words of Donald Guy '12, who, unlike basically everyone ... awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in ... remember the desk in room 26-100 as well as the enormous intellect that sat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I was put in a room with a small number of very smart grad students and a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , which was a bad thing for kids, since lead ions in aqueous solution taste sweet, but also promote brain damage. In fact, the word "plumbing" comes ... , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006