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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  , the store isn't bad - and yay for getting another free shirt. :) ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of ... Something called BCC It's time now, to sing out Though the spamming never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• 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…

  

  to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  called the Leadership Training Institute (LTI). In high school, I was involved in a similar leadership program. What I appreciated the most was the ... to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was ... for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a ... to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... of the #pandemiclifestyle, partially because it's my last semester and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  treadmill. And the world is a better place for it. ... I blogged last week (also here, and Kirsten did so here) about the ... why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  committee had their work cut out for them.” The 590 admitted students ... admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants this year, representing a 13% increase over last year’s record. The

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at ... I was thinking recently about the mixed messages that come through ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  -major. And then I stuck with it for the next six semesters, mostly out of sheer ... d'etres. (Oh god, don't know French, don't know where to add the ... , a theatre/band/choir star in high school. I was the only person in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  : some cool examples are headphone-assisted navigation for the blind, blood ... had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry ... APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... on projects unified by a theme (see the theme gallery for themes of ... this project.....but for now, 6.005 (sigh).  Enjoy the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  sponsored by the MIT Literary Society. I literally jhumped for joy (ouch, yea ... reading one of the eight stories in her new book, Unaccustomed Earth, for ... alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  /Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first black woman ... .) I couldn't attend it, since I had rehearsal for the Musical Theatre ... prerequisites. (For the record, I'm taking 21M.611: Foundations of Theater

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  reading season. The "love" part is that I love reading apps. I love reading ... seeing the choices people make, the ways in which people grow, the ways in ... myself.) The "hate" part is simply that there aren't enough hours in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it ... Discovered About Myself Freshman Year... 1. There is no substitute for sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  strategies for repositioning the debate. Instruction and practice in written ... course helps students build the foundation for a deeper understanding of ... Pavilion for 90 minutes to ride in a Tech Dinghy and sail on the Charles. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  spoonerisms (or oonerspisms for the similarly absent-minded), and at this rate ... This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald Spooner, who Wikipedia advertises as "notable for absent-mindedness". This

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... Thursdays are almost completely empty. My p-sets are due Friday. For the first ... study for exams (or not, if you pick the right major). Finally, there are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action ... decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My ... on the 15th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018