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• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  parents' computer to mine-detonators in remote Third World countries. When I ... the Midwest or whatever. If I cleared one of the smaller minefields in ... with you, but at this transitional, trans-semester stage in my life, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  saturday at 10PM EST - East Campus courtyard, or 42:21:36.025N, 71:05:16.332W ... which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a ... are being transported to clinics in remote locations  ...and a

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  't know, I'll go ask Yan. But if you're interested in what your 4th or maybe ... surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... vomited in their mouths a little). I miss waking up and looking out and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

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

  

  -day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a ... evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... SOMETHING today. So I made a nice schedule: I would wake up at 9:30ish, watch

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 Nobel Laureates in Economics! -- and -- Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Feedback

  

  For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What would you tell those who couldn't attend?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• 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 ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I ... kindergarten! I tried to go in, but got kicked out after 2 seconds. Qin

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in ... . Coding (almost) every day I wrote a 1.8k-word post about how tough ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a ... attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two days to pack, and one night when Javi and I will order Thai food from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  are still in the mail, but we're excited about the Class so far! I'll provide some data about the Mittens (MIT-Tens, as coined by Stephanie in the ... week. When I get a chance, I'll post telling you what's in there. In the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I ... very least, it will make you question how the world around you works. In

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  concentration at MIT in education through this set of classes. I encourage you to ... I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I ... Bergen Record wrote: Nobody cuts Mr. Goodman's class. In Robert Goodman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  included making decisions for how the proposed dining hall for W1 would ... Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii ... Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... students just how awesome the humanities and arts are here. I had great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  participate in the program. “Is this the button that opens the door? I really ... alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  up on first impressions… I’m constantly in awe at how different someone ... leave for FPOPs, orientation, and the like! I was just thinking about last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  We read applications from students interested in everything from apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  otherwise I'd feel incredibly bad for spending my entire morning writing in ... , it's easier to believe that there was time in-between I spent studying ... that some deadlines are very, very soon. I wouldn't want to tell you how

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  like Rindone, who grew up in Revere but was born in East Boston, as well as students from different parts of the world who settled in the city with their families. Differences in background and national origin did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  improve that much in terms of how much I could lift; my workouts weren ... " align="alignnone" width="400"] how I'm trying to be in 2024[/caption ... . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024