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• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  , pointed that out in the meeting. From Stuy we went to over to the United ... I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester County, having just spent the week in New York City and Long Island

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  in the head. :) 2. Chem fall, bio spring. This year, I went for Professor Lander's 7.012 class in the fall - being the awesome lecturer that ... very many people in the class (it was ~200, at a time when 3.091 had so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United States voted to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday. MIT noticed. The Great Dome is one of the most iconic pieces of architecture on campus, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we got there--nothing too bad, though. They tapped us in to make sure that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... mathematics. What are the chances that at some point in the last five years somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  , “in the past”, studied “lattice gauge theory, magnetic monopoles and ... investigating inflation in “brane world” models.” His MIT faculty page says that ... fundamental laws of nature?” What you won’t find out from these websites

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... Rolled - and it was a very different website then. There were no photos, no ... . Students could not friend students at other colleges. In fact, most colleges

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account ... applicants to the ECs in their area. Some ECs interview for just one school so you and several of your friends may get the same EC while in really

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... . According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and ... exhibition explores major figures in twentieth-century Europe, from late

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  more on Dheera's website) In my transportation seminar, we ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  Corridor actually ends... in a parking lot Favorite thing about Boston ... . In fact, it was not until Sesame Street began broadcasting 30 years ago ... about a move, I suggest the following website: The Internet Movie Database

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  admissions website, we will send you some information in the mail. And please ... admissions officer glances at in an application? Do you guys (officers) have ... information in the Part 1 -- name, town, school, etc. There are no numbers that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby ... PEOPLE ARE HERE which is, in fact, just as accurate as having our names up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry ... Lost, so I've watched almost the entire first two seasons in the last two ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  like it would work pretty well. You fuel it by buying 2 x 2 in cartridges ... beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... was less refreshing to do all this in one month, but so it goes. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Sufjan Stevens' brother Marzuki finished 20th in the ... singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the ... singular noun that ends in s AND the next word begins in s, you don't use an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... figure out which events we all had in common (lol yeah we went OFF)Here’s a ... as one of the three CPW Chairs of East Campus a while back (maybe in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019