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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but ... , because a little over a decade ago, in junior high, we were members of the ... thankfully Schnoogle is still up). So everyone in the room is going around

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  This will be the first in a series of entries focused on my ... MEng, or Master of Engineering, which is typically a one-year degree ... because you end up with both bachelor's and master's degrees in a shorter

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mech ... graduation. Luckily, the situation at MIT is much better -- I spent a few hours ... the women who start in engineering finish in engineering (the same as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  is completely true: we are indeed looking for human beings in every ... We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at just over four hours. It was awesome. Fun, intellectual, inspiring. In

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the law of sines! This is gonna be a tough puppy, but I think you guys can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  , who is just 41 years old, shares the prize with fellow researchers Saul ... Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1902. Adam Riess as a freshman at ... addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  !) is Thanksgiving day, which is a BIG DEAL in the U.S. Considering the ... their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... in the 20s because a large number of Macy's employees were new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  and did/didn't get in/got deferred, is a part of who you are now. It ... instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... will become. And, as a consequence, who you become is deeply entangled

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  blog seems to really resonate with many in cyberspace. It is hard to ... ones in which I get to dispense laughs or in which I get a chance to ... : "no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... learn even more. Eric Lander's name is familiar to anyone who has kept an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  which is inherent in a recession (for example, like what happened during ... , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of ... particularly remember, however, is "Attend a Nobel Laureate Lecture." I think it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT is Utopia Because the nice guys were here.

  

  The last 2 weeks have been such a whirlwind of activities. Last weekend was Utopia, a big boat cruise and party in the Boston Harbor. MIT CSC (Chinese Student's Club) hosted it, and a bunch of students from

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 15, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  are [annotation note="34, in fact"]a ton[/annotation] of beautiful ... hour there...The boat leaves from Long Wharf, which is a ~10 minute walk ... is only a bit of an overstatement. The ferry ride is indeed beautiful

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While ... a draw for me in the depth of intramural sports. I had been a varsity

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen ... right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way ... anything else, is kind of a big deal to me this is just to say, i'm gonna

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It was a great 36 hours of hunting! I'll post some fun puzzles in my next ... Hunt! "The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight" is the team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the ... true that students who have achieved a national or international degree ... Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor

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

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  And you, you need a beard" While The Beards insisted that there is "No ... him in mind, and a wary eye on some nearby dark storm clouds, Queen ... armies and a slave named Caroline Terry. In case you're interested: As I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  around the campus. The fact that you're a prefrosh is like an open door to ... that I look a lot taller in my picture than I do in real life because that would make it three years in a row. Bring your parents and your

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  teleportation is used to send bits of data. In a world where the speed of light is a limiting factor in all of our transmission of data, this is an ... in popularity. The Muse is without a doubt one of the more interesting

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014