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• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in ... .) The professor said he was willing to make an exception but that the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until I get used to this "eating healthy food" BS. So I'm going to write ... commonly) are free to put as much or as little money as desired on the card

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband ... , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  Why it Pays to Be a Math Geek (from msn.com) Selected passages ... , that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top ... communication skills are key to long-term career success. 'Being the best

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can tell you... 1) They're going to start mailing them in the next few days and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past ... physics, so I got to hear him speak 3x/week). Admitted students, log into ... that financial aid letters will be mailed today to those students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  /14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the ... camera to take a picture with birthday boy Albert. What was I doing at ... of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... applications yesterday to experience 5 fun events. First was the famous MIT Charm ... classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  to Solid State Chemistry. Professor Don Sadoway, arguably the best and most popular teacher at MIT, always wears a tuxedo to his final 3 ... for the final exam, to which he wears a tux with tails). And, as always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to ... one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  at MIT, you don't have to major or minor in the arts to be fully ... take art, music, and theater courses, and any student can audition to ... organizes the Student Lending Art Program, which loans real works of arts to
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that you have to stop and lose that heat and start all over. But then, when I set my alarm for seven am yesterday and stumbled up to snooze it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year ... people start to become super jaded. Have you gotten to that point yet?” I ... underclassman excitement, feeling tired and cynical, not bothering to remind

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my ... . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the ... deadline, you are fine for EA. Storm: Due to the devastating snowstorm that ... still require you to submit the application by the normal deadline, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008