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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  , but it's a really intense course: 9 days, 9 hours a day, 9 units. I can ... DID YOU KNOW? The highest ever cricket batting average of all time ... you wouldn't know it because I blogged only about things that happened

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  Perhaps the most interesting research is the work that surprises, startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a ... genomics research, had the following teaser on the front page: A Later Split

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  story seemed to fall a little flat. And for those of you who were upset by ... (I'd say Clueless is a more faithful adaptation of Emma). The largest ... Cafe is the best place in town for soup dumplings (very, very yummy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  experience. My own description is a little shorter: The best six days of my ... Shape serenaded me with a rendition of "Just the Way You Are", followed by a brief ... Shape, as detailed by MIT's Division of Student Life, is as follows: MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  talked about, but I remember there's a whole debate over there about ... before the semester starts is not a vibe. Wednesday wasn't the worst day ... spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  , you probably aren't. For well over a year, from my rural roost, I sort ... my local community college. If you've got your heart set on a specific school, take a few steps back and ask yourself why. If you're thinking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  is to type one up entirely from a Mac at an Apple store.   ... Ambitious Adventures, a reality TV show following innovative cities ... people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  me up on my suggestion, writing, "I've got a door for you, hailing from ... inscription translation is now an open question to be answered by you, as is the ... I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  . You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not you go to MIT. It's the truth. -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... was busy, sure, but it wasn't a disaster. Practice working harder

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  playwright. Truth Values, written by Gioia De Cari in 2008, is a roman à clef ... girl's romp through MIT's male math maze," and as neither a girl nor a ... a showtime into my schedule. ABOVE: Central Square Theater's new

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  -compound catalyst for metathesis--a chemical process wherein two reacting structures swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students, faculty, and staff can go hang out and create beautiful glassware and ... great, if not THE great living glass blower, Lino Tagliapietra, is working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  losing your best friend, someone who's always there for you. A part of me ... with your offering. The truth is, Baxter never really left you. Search ... you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ?” boat. We don’t want to treat this blog as a way to directly advise you ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until ... A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  from the firehose this month. This post is about that, and it has a happy ending. The past is a lesson learned. I share it with you... I can ... success. I expected a bright solution. “Maybe it would be better if you took

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  ’m going to enjoy being in California and I look forward to seeing you there! ... (Written while on a Boeing 737 somewhere between Seattle, WA and ... to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  single day this week, my eating schedule again possesses (whoa, there are a ... up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... blocked from memory. Any sleep I lost was never found; TGIF took on a whole

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  tell you a bit about me... I'm a senior in Management and Political ... political road is a tough one, fraught with unexpected challenges. If I ... My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  , depending on interest. Sometimes even things that you spent 30 hours a week ... had pretty good coverage of the place :P In the end there was a ... Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007