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• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  ; please be patient), but soon the incoming freshman class will transition ... will be mailed next week, be patient). What does the NBM include? A ... (Athena/Kerberos) account, including your email address (!). The last item

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  like “Paula Abdul actually isn't African American” or “McDonald's in Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing ... : Exam 1: 52.5%. I may have choked. Turn on the slow-motion cameras, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  bids for the very lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will ... of choosing the ring committee, or "RingComm," of 12 class members ... factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  choosing the ring committee, or "RingComm," of 12 class members. The RingComm next solicits bids for the very lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  is a personal reflection on the keynote address on "Nerd Epistemology ... poet,” or, in stronger terms, “At some point you must face that anti-science is pro-stupid.” In Professor Flowers’ view, we must stop lecturing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  's transportation systems]   Or even in the United States, we can use data and ... of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... that the Class of 2018 will change the world for the better. I also know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  additional copies via Docufide or fax. Envelopes may be addressed to: MIT ... who had an interview (or who had their interview waived) but only 1 ... [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  first and third Friday every month, the refractor slews to Saturn or the moon or a globular cluster or a double star system. If it's clear outside ... taking her eye from the lens, reach out her right hand as though to close

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  camera, or organizing them, or summarizing all my data, or editing the ... princesses a few hours later. So this will be my last MITblog entry from ... roll over "wienerschnitzel" on the new Flash-enabled MISTI website or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Cambridge ones, will have done as part of their undergraduate degree, or one ... idea is that students in England come out of high school (or Sixth Form ... lateral mobility once they've matriculated. Many undergraduate degrees then

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  starting out your semester or school year or whatever and you keep telling ... predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... and you fall asleep in your chair, or at least get pretty sad and decide

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  . Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent ... signing up to volunteer, or e-mailing me offering their support. i ... !". At 3pm, it was time for business. Volunteers mobilized - we carried

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... first novel, which fulfills his two-book contract, is done—and in many ... 's another juicy quotation for the click-averse: "Then Díaz more or less

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  "Saudi Arabia and the Global Community" Thursday, February 16, 4pm ... interesting lecture/discussion. The featured speaker will be Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. The forum will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  always somewhat unsatisfactory or a little off. I thought that the best way ... first to create a portrait of a person or a place. Abby showscases this ... on an issue, either showing both sides of an issue or heavily

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  finalizing the user experience using proto.io (silly-fast mobile prototyping ... it doesn't hurt that our pantry is stocked with Sugarpova, the gourmet ... -Ashbury, Ranch 99 (DISCLAIMER: I did not buy the lamb placenta... because the store

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  this data, because that would be the solution to a pset that will ... code a lab called Autocomplete. It was about implementing a data structure called a Trie (pronounced either “try” or “tree” depending on who

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  I took a long break from blogging. I [annotation note="and will be ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  part of MIT-Washington's orientation. [carousel image1="101766" image2 ... game before, but it was a very chill day :) [carousel image1 ... , Georgetown has a Flea Market with vendors selling a mix of vintage, modern

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  information session that historically, this hasn't always been the case. Back in ... able to meow or [annotation note="pet snakes ... image1="72884" image2="72936" image3="72882" image4="72883" image5="72880" /]

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022