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• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  basketball." But when the Ivy League universities hesitated to make an offer ... ., where he drew recruiting attention from Division II universities and a ... hardest. Anderson tried to sell him on the university’s academic excellence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... even worcester and providence in rhode island. colloquially, this is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Astronomy (with Anna Frebel, who studies the early universe, works on discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  experiences at pretty much any university. The funny thing is, individually ... their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind ... considerable challenge at other universities. I've never, ever been very

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  science-fiction universe. Then I saw snow for the first time while running ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... universities, and Spencer was among 31 selected; the scholarship will fund his ... ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says ... . —Diani Jones Oh, capitalism getting a degree from a giant corporation. The ... getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  -and-pasting, the entropy of the universe will not increase as much as it would had I ... , unspringy mattress involved creaking wood and 45-degree wobbling. I had about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with ... days. I am crossing my fingers that the water is at least 50 degrees C

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the richest university in the world. Her campaign’s top priorities ... universities which were usually selective universities. There are also threads on ... would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... -year-old me, Deresiewicz offered a terrifying prospect. I didn’t want to be a ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... information contained within the universe. A small library near jlab ceases to ... universe has reasserted itself. A particular small goose is fed fois gras for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal ... a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019