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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  graduation, Riess chose to attend MIT, where he majored in Physics (Course 8 ... to graduate school at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996 in ... supernova can emit as much light as a whole galaxy. All in all, the two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... most I've ever run in my life Attended two winter carnivals and even a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  idea of section Three?" you can reply with "I intended for the ... , eloquence, and soliloquy. If you're more daring than I was, you can even say ... in the things that you know are correct?" I asked. He nodded. "But you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  intentionally by taking eight classes a semester so they can graduate in two years ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it ... the CS/math majors I know are in this class, including a '14 down my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to ... hours :) I thought I'd share the fun times I had this past Friday night

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... drink from that firehose and you get it done. I can say that this semester ... 'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  try. "Where's dad?" "He went in to work this morning. I haven't been ... iMac in the center of the room. We watched as a second plane flew into ... On September 11, 2001, I had just begun my junior year. I was running

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  sometimes, but it can also get in the way of the reasons I began writing in ... . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... among dark churning waves. In tenth grade, I entered a writing contest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... could get more than a dozen members in the band! This was the first day I had ever played tuba. I figured out that you can just not press down any

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  when I auditioned for American Idol or whatever. But now? No. I can't put ... . Which is also just about the best thing in the world, now that I think of ... !xobile Time: 12:48 PM Subject: long story I had a dream that I went out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  I can pop into unannounced, and I wouldn't feel out of place making an ... them seem to be very interested in undergrads -- I think they find us ... in Biology. I wonder if vocabulary will be a hard job for students who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... the city I grew up in) and over 3,600 companies, including 82 of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just ... 'll crash hard in the afternoon."][/annotation]. Last year, I wouldn't ever ... the efficiency I can achieve when I cook breakfast. Things like working

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I ... can officially accept MIT's offer of admission (i.e. let us know they ... 'd gone to MIT I totally would have lived in EC. I'm not saying it's the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit ... family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say ... decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the ... only solace in the fact that, every time I took the 1 bus up the street ... changes like this in every corner of my being. When I started singing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying committee this year even more than I have in past years. Maybe that's just

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  15 with a minor in 14 [in layman's terms: a double major in Mathematics and Management, and a minor in Economics] What's next: Working as a ... Random Variables with Prof. Richard Dudley. It was a class in probability

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006