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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... commandments (as sent in his last email to the class), "Thou shalt not tool* from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  our neighbors' backyards all around us. every once in a while one of us buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases ... time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  . They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  me, not that he took my exam and then handed it in. Of course, that would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of ... students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  UROP in the O'Connor Lab. The lab's a part of the chemistry department ... involves techniques in molecular biology as well as biochemistry and organic chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 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 / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 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 / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 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