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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World". It's certainly interesting to travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics ... , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  that ability to convey lots of meaning very succinctly is vital in any ... ability to deliver a message, whether it’s on the 2.009 stage or in a ... hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least ... been touched on yet. "/> Our CityDays project involved going to the Match School and getting stuff ready for the upcoming school year. A lot

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... brain cells. (*In the past two days, I've been taking study breaks to the ... , MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  , however, try to post some tidbits about life in the Bay Area!   So ... graduating seniors - I'll miss you).  Can't wait to meet 2019s in the fall! ... Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in ... . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  not for at least another week. I want to talk to you, especially since some of you need to decide whether or not to come to MIT and the rest of ... semester senior at MIT, majoring in computer science and molecular biology (6

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Date 2011 Decided to announce the announcement of decisions.

  

  in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision ... decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you

  • by MITLeaks
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  ", or the costs attendant to searching for employment in down labor ... MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel Prize has been awarded to either an MIT alum or MIT faculty! Don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  your application in advance of the deadline. Now is also a good time to ... So, MyMIT is back up, and things are back to normal around here. (Or ... Counselors (ECs). The deadline to contact your EC is now this Monday, October

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  Protein Odwalla Bar for energy, ten dollars in case I pass out and need to ... DID YOU KNOW? According to the MPAA, the 1995 Mel Gibson classic ... entry, Mitra and I'll probably be in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, preparing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  spent on the iterative design process and what it takes in order to be ... .007: From the MIT News Office: "In addition to the stair-climbing wheelchair ... kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  Guard was called in to put down drunken riots, I felt far outside the ... counted the days to graduation. Whereupon, in May 2009, I immediately ... . But I wanted to highlight the importance of match because when I was in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  -night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a ... extension that would allow users to copy-paste text directly from in ... fluent enough in those languages to build my own castles) by the end of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  dinner we headed down to Maggiano's Little Italy in Boston--a trip made in ... in Chemical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Nuclear Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  personalities are totally different," she said. Both girls plan to attend MIT in ... what they plan to major in this fall, the both said the same thing - math ... is what to say in their graduation speeches. When asked about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  are ready!  In order to verify that you will receive a decision ... , I wanted to duck out for a moment to let you know that, as the title ... , 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST.   To check you decision on the 17th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... in? Here's Veena '06, who lives in Baker House. Look at the ... can out-geek us by carving Athena. Right. Other people noted how he

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT ... requirements. By assisted, I mean something more like “forced to comply in order to graduate,” but let us not fret about semantics. HASS, in a vague

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008