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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last ... the graduate version would definitely be offered, I took the class on Jr ... My grades for the semester so far: This should keep me motivated

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M ... advance of the deadline. 3. Relax. Here goes ... , more than half of the freshman class places out of single variable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  I like? Can the size of the smaller school offer a more supportive ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... the comments thread. A lot of questions while I was gone, here we go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... /sugar/salt solution (7.06). You won't absorb water without salt due to the structure of ... structure of the transporters in your intestine (7.06). 2. The reason you feel

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  If a QB applicant is admitted EA/RA, will they receive full financial aid?

  assemble a financial aid offer that will meet 100% of your demonstrated need. This usually means an award similar to the College Match Scholarship ... MIT practices need-blind admissions for all students, regardless of
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  when other people offer them to you, like almost all of the guys I ... on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed ... studio. I miss this kind of food when I’m away from my family. Over the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  the little pine tree on the side of the road instead of the big huge ... of their host stars). The project is very ambitious for a 2 million ... allows you to petition out of many basic courses into the more advanced

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... incomprehensible names, like “Intersectionality and the Ethics of Transnational Surrogacy.” There are readings on the history of education methods and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  the middle of early apps) where I can find more information? My book is ... ?" I think you mean the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and ... have had MAJOR syllabi changes(going from ICSE to CBSE in the middle of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  West Side Story to swing to a celebration of the Roaring 20s. Other ... On this day celebrating eagles, barbeque, and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence (not the signing; get your facts straight, kids

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  the office computer and watched the replay of the crash. I started to ... iMac in the center of the room. We watched as a second plane flew into the second tower. The most personal part of the day for me was what we

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India ... imagined, though it isn't large by the standards of national parks in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... does a disservice to the small miracle of beauty that is this movie and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... of amazing minds that are truly changing the way that we see the mind ... few Universities that will offer a biological engineering degree. I have

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of ... of this social was to introduce the GEL students to their mentors, who

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... floor is dating Loop, the southern half of the second floor, flowers and ... major at the end of this year, when freshmen at MIT declare their majors

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW AND WIND CHILLS IN THE 5 TO 15 DEGREE RANGE ... Issued by The National Weather Service Boston, MA 7:49 am EST, Sun ... FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH 5 TO 10 INCHES IN THE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  temperatures (it hit 62 degrees F today, just shy of 1932's 65). But we were inside, happily working towards admitting the Class of 2011. Tomorrow, the ... As Ben has noted, we have begun the early action selection committee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... tomorrow night, Joanne will be competing with 16 women for the title of "Miss ... -Jo the best of luck this weekend!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... no idea what any of those words meant). Sometime over the summer, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014