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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  . When Sir More first suggested the idea of one offering "a penny for your ... are the implications of offering a penny for one's thoughts. In 1522, a ... , it had the same value as a few pounds of cheese, or 2 dozen eggs. At

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Name: Mari McQuaid Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions ... University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  of my favorite classes at MIT, 4.101 Experiencing Architecture Studio ... on the Time Traveler Convention. Anyway, check both of those out. Last ... , and I didn't lose my voice =) The most popular question of the night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... piconewtons of force!). Professor. Angela Belcher's research group sits at the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  says 42 degrees, raining, and crazy windy. So I was sitting at Burton ... degree from MIT within 90 days of each other, really, what can I not do ... 111-year history, in 1918. That was because of World War 1. So it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  clockwork, having time to study, hang out, and do a ton of activities at the ... -related things you can do over IAP at MIT, as there are entry-level courses offered ... I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  , I ate at the brand new Steam Cafe, a very yummy new dining option! I ... major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty yesterday approved a new course of study for undergraduates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... . The Head of the Student Exchange office at ETH was also present to ... and the path of least resistance to stay at MIT, take the classes I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm, with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  fellow Poriferan who was at the drop with me.) Unfufilled by the lack of ... cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... Course 6 classes. Some of you may have to pick a college because it offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at ... employment at all!” In math terms, we’d be saying that the effect of the wage ... jobs? We can’t just answer this question by looking at the wages of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  probably stay on that side for at least the next 8 years of my life as I pursue a DMD/PhD dual degree at Harvard. Looking back, I realized that ... ="There aren’t a lot of those at MIT, I think"]“normal people”[/annotation] I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  junior year and it's exactly due to the above quote. A lot of my time at ... ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  , so they chose one of the motors at random and installed it in their ... you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open ... some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... were starting - because a few days ago, I got kicked out of my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  interesting offerings in this year's Spalsh course catalogue. Well, a couple of ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008