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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  nerds. You start with a soup of universally strong math backgrounds, then ... Institute of Technology. Now, you may have heard of some of our linguistic ... There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  the first one: Not the same few colleges: The State University of New ... the nearest major research university to where I grew up, for some of ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  Bauer, attends the City University of New York Honors College. ... This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... ? Domestic selection (final stages). It's been a long season of Regular Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... aptly titled: The game of rules and living by them. Song: The Name of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  technology in magic). Colin ‘16 re-created the trick in the opening scene of ... incorporated technology or to present a technology in a magical way (or both ... talk about the history of computing. He was inspired by Marco Tempest

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  Institute of Technology......) But one of the largest challenges, at least for ... number of notecards. For the technologically-enabled (read:nerd), there are ... I'm fairly sure all of you are familiar with the fact that MIT has

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow continually found new and improved methods of hosing myself and ... method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

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

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... scope of a semester-long language course, which means 3 hours of class every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  the last two telethons but, alas, this year the 9 degree weather outside is just too much of a deterrent, it's so nice and warm inside that I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... some silly 9-5, or throw you into 4 years of graduate school, and you ... college admissions blogs. Someone who didn't make use of her MIT education

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"... Favorite commercial: Intel and its support of ... programs, including a nice shot of MIT's own Elena Glassman '08 winning the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  the campus of Hebrew University that also includes business training and ... The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... (Courses 6-3 and 21M, of Random Hall): "We all know that MIT is the best

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  So, less than THREE WEEKS until CPW! All of us in the office are ... ! It'll be loads of fun, I promise. I thought I'd take a break from ... (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk by MIT Professor Pattie Maes about a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  moderated by MIT Professor of Chemistry John Deutch. The talk is hosted by the ... served as director general of Saudi Arabia's main foreign intelligence ... . Deutch ran the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as Director of Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  long lines of students. MIT students do not pass up free food. So ... and Technology Initiatives has been giving out free food. While I was ... can with photos of events that I attend. Until then, I'm off to enjoy

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005