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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... breaks. Besides, I get to do awesome stuff no one else gets to do, like ... to 1.5 million things per day. Which is why this entry is short. Sanja

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  - this is where we get paired to our "big" as in "big sister" (sophomore or ... _____X In addition, I've been trying to get more involved in environmental ... 00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking Portlet Now Available You should now see it in your MyMIT account.

  

  'm getting a bunch of comments in response to this post with financial-aid-specific questions and unfortunately I'm not equipped to answer them - please send them ... the financial aid tracking portlet in your MyMIT account. If you have

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor ... proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... the cells in your brain talk to each other. In other words: it allows

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005, and in 2006 he received the ... come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and ... remember how weird it was to be back at MIT - I never conceived of coming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  another quality stapler in the office for me to use, so all is well in the ... 't know the answer, but perhaps I can persuade Ben to answer it in the ... required only for students in U.S. school systems, do other students need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my ... have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy ... entry; see my previous live entry, in this very same room, just six months

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  been said. There was much to reflect on—in one hour, Professor Flowers ... human to learn how to apply calculus to improve the world. Machines ... human cognition to pose questions about ethics—how things should be. We

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... kindergarten! I tried to go in, but got kicked out after 2 seconds. Qin ... . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  the talks happen in my room, which is room 251. the general goal is to ... about MIT in general. most of the people i talk to will be people on my ... recording session. i'm working to get the podcast transcribed, and also get a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of ... DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  , or even months, before things get back to normal. Please know that for ... with your individual circumstances, whatever they may be. Get in touch ... . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my ... anymore. Then he asked what I dig. "Blues," I said, "born in New Orleans ... was in the presence of a true artist. He wasn't there to busk or beg, or

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  week only) I'll batch the questions and reply twice daily. So to get ... Today's post is a bit different from my regular posts. As we get closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  's basically an initiative to encourage people to make a positive difference in ... mentioned, the other camp counselors and I have been trying hard to raise ... , including bake sales and Stuff My Cups; now, we're involved in something even

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a ... bad hand". the chorus has been stuck in my head for the last few days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  'm attached to: when you graduate from MIT, you die in real life. Implicit is ... went to a retreat with some friends, and I didn't realize we were in North Conway, New Hampshire, until someone suggested a visit to Diana

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  ’s advice on how MIT could best explore its historical connections in this ... , meeting in the MIT archives. In December, the students presented to me what ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... needed to get the job done right.   It was an incredible amount of work ... 2025. Getting to "meet" so many capable, compassionate students through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021