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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  apparently on the northern side of the train, and I am seated on the southern ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  At MIT, there are two weeks between the last day of finals and commencement. The second of those two weeks is called Senior Week: the class council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes Scholar. This year's list of winners includes not one but two awesome MIT ... biographies of Alia and Matt from RhodesScholar.org (links mine), followed by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission ... measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• 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 / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  , and Southern whites, who sought to inflate the population of ... ensured that a Southern slave owner won 12 of the first 16 elections, is an ...  https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... interdisciplinary work prepared by some of MIT's most noted energy professors detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to offer. And, of course, there's always Mystery Hunt to look forward ... Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me ... Cambridge anymore, Toto, when I - realizing that none of my relatives know

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  soaking in the California sun and revisiting my childhood dream of becoming ... seeding cells and learning to increase throughput with the use of all kinds of automated machines and processes,  I've found myself genuinely

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend ... of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... , Acting Director of ICE Ken Cuccinelli said, in an interview, that this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... interesting folks. This trip follows another recent trip to Northern California ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  California, too. You ever heard of seasonal affective disorder?" "Yes, sir, I ... trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don ... many times that there are, like, 4 different drafts of it sitting in Word

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that ... %, it does not mean that the chances of a given applicant who scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Tomorrow, we will mail out the first of four batches of letters ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for ... different member of our staff will visit different areas of the country. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... Cambridge ones, will have done as part of their undergraduate degree, or one ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  , California. (I remembered the name of the town, this time.) I explained some of ... California’s central valley. Traversing several hundred miles of farmland up ... college application essays over cups and cups of coffee. After some brutal

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006