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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  topic. Being in student government, I know a lot of people from a lot of different dorms, and I've discussed campus issues with a lot of people in a ... Laura '09 had an interesting bit a while back in her blog about East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the ... 're being ridiculous and is in general a breath of fresh air. I wonder if he ... intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a ... Washington, D.C., in June for a presentation that might include meeting the ... : Just how would I break the search engine?" said Smith, 18, a Hollis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... time in my three years of joining code jam, i won a shirt. [caption id ... i stayed in east campus, which was a little over six months. and then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases ... many amazing students are out there. As I said to one of my colleagues in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  was going somewhere in this world. I still have a few GIRs left to ... presented. I applied to MIT with an interest in Course 9, and nothing I ... Adminstrator's office on Friday, I was a little too cheerful and smiling a little

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  taught in a field I was interested in. Seminars, he said, were ideal, since ... perfect department. That being said- and I promise this'll make sense in a ... sounds like a house elf from Harry Potter and 2) my parents, who were in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  (I have a lot more unfinished posts on their way - as well as answers ... here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first ... - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  the first one there! I suppose there's a lesson in here somewhere: no ... just as committed than you are. I think this is actually a good thing, in ... . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn

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

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  for a full recovery. Since then, I have been pitching in where I can ... fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the ... , supporting my team the way I had hoped, and taking a backseat overall. But, it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... 7 spent less than $1 million and 8 spent nothing. "For a nation, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... and made me wish that every class I was enrolled in graded me for my ... wish I had more time to do. I actually have a list: 1. Visit the Museum

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  Today, I'm in northern Virginia, assisting with the selection for the ... , I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational ... MIT aims for a freshman class of nearly 1000 students each year (in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  . In case you haven't figured out what this all means yet: a sunrise hot ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... that Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. So, in a fairly literal sense, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  Roger Kornberg, a professor at Stanford, won the Nobel prize in Chemistry ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... on Friday. What's a girl to do? So, here it is: It doesn't really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a ... Doctor Russ. Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance, a grad student I ... became, uh... Doctor Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance. I guess that's what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a ... in the pre-mailing tasks. The letters have been printed (I held the stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  in general? I have a completely different point of view from those presented in the article, probably as a result of the role models that I have ... schools, which I believe have a high percentage of women in the liberal arts

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only ... Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020