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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication ... 's often harder for MIT undergrads to get into the MIT program than it is for ... talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes ... can almost take it easy! But you can't just sit around waiting for June ... worrying for my future... will I get into a good school? Can I get a job? Can

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  /14) TODAY! Stop by the Student Center 5th Floor lounge at 8pm for free punch ... ? ------------------------------------------ Update (PI/2007 5:35 PM) So this year, the Undergraduate Math Association sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... runners stuck around for awards, so Sam got one of the prizes. Have fun with ... -- thanks for the pictures! It is freezing, but we are happy =) The Boston

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist ... With 5 days until the May 2 postmark deadline, is anyone still making

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... -doc and my primary mentor for the summer. After introducing me to a number ... "Established for the Advancement of Science" suddenly held an entirely new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  just assumed the Red Sox were winning, for no particular reason)) and ... presentations on MIT each year. And, for the most part, I'm generally discussing ... time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  error, I took three measurements for each sample using the indenter and ... .1220 midterm exam. The median score for this exam was 61 out of 120 – by all ... on MIT’s hardness? Is the measurement process simply too complex for a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  has the benefit of being in the middle of the week for those of us who ... -H classes, but the tutors for 24.09 were extremely nice and willing to help ... over to the tennis courts to swing my racket around for a bit. This

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was born and raised in India but for the past decade or so had worked as ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get ... was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applied for admission for Fall 2017. Transfer applicants, unlike freshman applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

  twice a week (running experiments for my aeroastro capstone). i've been going to wellesley a lot (for toons rehearsals and for the open fields and for the quietness of not-city sounds). i've been spending a lot of time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applied for admission for Fall 2015. Transfer applicants, unlike freshman applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  .391: Sustainable Energy for the next two weeks. I'm too lazy to link to it right now ... 't wait! Stay tuned for tales of my audition for The Amazing Race, the ... DID YOU KNOW? The highest ever cricket batting average of all time

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

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  math and chemical engineering. [n.b. also see the story's homepage for a ... Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... math, and now it's paying off. He's preparing to leave for Boston on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  frequently writes for The Village Voice, and last week, her piece was the cover ... , what could we do?) Today, the MyMIT Portal team had our weekly meeting, and one of the topics dealt with writing. It got me thinking about some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ...am not a hacker (yet). I went into the hackathon with a mild curiosity for ... goal for myself: finish the current Codecademy curriculum (and become ... flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of these books have had their residence on my bookshelf for a long time. Some

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... for help, and ran into my friend Marie '11. While I was off rolling the snowball for the head, Dan and Marie came up with an ingenious idea. There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008