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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  Ministry of Supply with a fellow GEL student, Gihan. They sell business shirts made out of performance material, so subway trips or bike rides to ... the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. According to Andrew, “One

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  particularly new or unexpected, and anyone who knows me will be the first to roll ... Francisco, pushing around data that has no worth to me or the world at large ... some point, though, everything changed. Or, really, not that much changed

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  form waste?” one OperaBot asks. “Or is it a form of entropy? Of data rearranged?” another OperaBot asks. “How can I ... but not distracting from the story, the themes, or most of all... The

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... - day 1 - feb 26 Arrived at East Campus with three bags, hoping this is ... when I entered 5W. The TV lounge had perhaps five or so people sitting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  to sell my organs piece by piece on the global black market, I'm pretty ... Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... something. If the two proteins interact within the cell, they will allow the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... [email protected] if you would like more As for more Qs. How will ... the MISTI Global Teaching Labs (GTL) Initiative, I spent three weeks

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the ... parents will probably not want answers to the same questions that students will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  that new HDTV is! I may not have the money to buy it, but, hey, I do have ... nobody will give you a prime card with a reasonable rate as a brand-new adult, FCU is a good place to start. If nothing else, use it to buy a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  of May 1. What has the waitlist looked like, historically? Last ... . After May 1, when all students have sent their replies, colleges will ... this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  prefrosh smashed a sign labeled "Stock Market" with sledge hammers.  After that, they built a giant box fort from the ruins of the stock market ... Campus has a tradition called Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Each week, a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  Bus) from SoulPancake Humorous: Quiz: is it pokemon or big data ... Dear 2020 MIT Protofrosh,  Today or tomorrow, depending on your timezone, you will access a special message on decisions.mit.edu. You

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  common but I'm unsure: before sentence-ending emojis or emoticons, I will ... i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to ... Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  return address will be mcgann), but deep down, I'll always be madmatt. MIT ... coolest parts of the NBM is the Athena Account Coupon. The coupon will allow you to get yourself a Kerberos Identity/Athena username. What will this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  -o-lanterns, festival-goers will find great food, live bands and entertainment, a pie ... ! Apples will be provided by your GRT on Friday, October 21. Entries are due Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this year's Nobel Prizes. Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current or former MIT faculty member or alum has won a Nobel every year since 1993. So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview deadline?

  their application by November 1 for Early Action or January 6 for Regular ... Educational Counselor (EC) if there’s one available. ECs will typically use the email address you provided on your application to contact you, so please
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with ... sign a simple contract with some unreadable fine print. After nearly all ... realized that by signing the contract, they had sold their collective souls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and ... historically underrepresented. Why have women been underrepresented? Well, there ... technologies they find frustrating or annoying. The electronics industry has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  . I was on a Site Reliability Engineering team, which managed the data ... process for new data centers. Some days flew by packed, and others dragged ... floors, or perhaps only those on the first few floors dared to install

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  before graduation, or belatedly discovering that one humanities class didn ... , or get nonexistent triple majors, or...for fun. (There's no credit limit for freshmen with sophomore standing or upperclassmen; the only

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012