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  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is ... Caltech, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the inorganic chemistry ... (take a look!). Tonight is my penultimate Central Meeting of the year, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  Arithmetic of complex numbers Polar form/euler's formula Looking at it in ... studying for[annotation note = "I literally have a paper due in 4 days and three exams in two days next week and I haven't started anything for any

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  to stay in Morgan's lab for both summers. I certainly know people who have done REUs and really enjoyed them, but for the career I'm looking at ... (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  destruction and devastation in every direction. There are tent cities for miles ... Media Projects in Haiti. The class was conceived fairly last minute after the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for ... Esperanto for Splash, but conlangs in general fascinate me. I think Toki Pona ... Thirteen, for example, there’s the phrase “will be better for me”. Or in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  I had a great time last week at ISEF. This is what it looked like ... send multiple admissions officers to ISEF, which will be in Indianapolis. A handful of the many awesome students: Nicole (an amazing young woman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  in his lap, and began to explain the search for a bizarre particle ... in 2011, its existence and properties remained a mystery, but not for ... in a while, you can pull out something (an "event") which could have

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  in such a short time before, but it nonetheless requires an adjustment ... -dilated, where I stop and think for a second and look back at how much has passed in what seems like an instant. I spent this past summer soaking in the

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  I'm in Phoenix for the International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the ... together for an exclusive concert and a rousing rendition of the alma mater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  all things you can get a feel for by just looking around during your ... your place on-campus. Is there an activity you do in high school that you ... that campus visits aren’t always an option for everyone, particularly

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  stared at the long island sound for an hour from the driver's seat. i ... lump of butter in the pan, add half an onion diced and a spoonful of ... feel close to now. waiting seemingly in vain for this strange time to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  singing, and then another, and another, with an audience growing in the ... jumpscared me while I was waiting for my next class to start! It looked ... papers to come in. I leave to use the bathroom and for a blessed moment of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  essays today, I realized an egregious error in one. I really do think it ... ever consider this revision??" It is highly unlikely that an error in ... broken. Sorry. paul asked, "can a research paper in an international

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  an Existential Crisis. It was basically me walking through my career in ... ."]digital communication[/annotation] in higher education from my time as a grad assistant to now as an assistant director and talking about the main things I learned

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... for an 8.01x (physics) test which was to occur the next morning. My ... chemistry), and a C- in 8.01x (physics). Passing in 8.01x was an overall

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  of what my career will look like in the next several years and what I ... eventually accept an engineering role in performance optimization and low ... publish two novels anyway), and one day I might want to get an MFA in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  straight for free “Thirsty? Need a Snack?” section of the room. Got drinks in ... didn't linger in the Game Room for long. Even on the second floor, DJ ... Hatoum. In the next room was an example of political satire in art by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  last year, i lived in simmons hall. simmons is known for many things ... except for the second, fifth, and sixth floors are discontinuous in some ... pieces. the third and fourth floors, for instance, are partitioned in two

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  for the first time in the most unguided way possible. I shimmied along ... hours of your life sitting in a theatre, followed by an hour of stage dooring in the cold is an experience that can't be written down. It required

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  stuff! In no particular order, here is a list: 1) We went on an errand ... in the Burton Conner TV room, but after an hour of failing to get the ... For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018