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• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  Creasy at the Johns Hopkins University (a fantastic school, btw) for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  like to believe that scores are the key to entry into university, but

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  America's candy universe, with 32 candy factories (including those for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  "Globalization" (University of California Press, 2004), Professor Jenkins writes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  presidential election, Massachusetts public schools, university riots in the '60s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  , but will require writing scores the following year. The university will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of emphasis on undergraduate education. There are 10 Nobel Laureates, 26 Mac
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left ... discipline that only the bedbugs could appreciate. It was sixteen degrees ... -one degrees Celsius. The beds were clean, finally, as they should be. A grey fog

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  least 2 different states (probably more) have not received their tubes. Please don't ask me to identify the states; I wouldn't feel right doing so without knowing *all* the states that are still owed tubes. If I've been

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer ... * MIT offers this super duper cool opportunity to cross-register at 3

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  , microstructure of stock exchanges and initial public offerings. Her current ... , corporate governance, and public offerings. She teaches financial management ... offerings, international stock markets, corporate governance, and market

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  Forbes article, MIT was listed as one of the most attended universities of the 2017 recipients, alongside Harvard, New York University, Stanford, and University of Pennsylvania. Obviously, awards are subjective, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our ... . Universal Grammar by Norvin Richards, Professor of Linguistics What does modern linguistics mean by “Universal Grammar?” I’ll share recent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... for granted the wonderfully fast, universally-available and fast ... that were discovered or researched here at Cambridge University. The

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  .           7. Some things are universal. Or quasi-universal. Like Latin. Really ... all those Latin roots definitely eased me into Italian. Also universal

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on the early universe to him. If that didn’t blow your mind, maybe this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  other Universities that have had successful track records. The two places we looked at were Baylor University in Waco, TX and the University of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really ... accepted into the University of Chicago early action, and life was set for me ... , made a checklist. We visited both universities, again. The schools were

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  universe. Being Course 8, he had an advantage over a mere frosh, but I had ... claimed that creamy style peanut butter much better fits with the universe ... represent galaxies floating in that universe, and also that this had nothing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008