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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  must have written at least a hundred different stories, most of them ... , escaped from some universe, a piece of a jigsaw puzzle I’m privy to. And the ... staring at the face of the killer, you’ve forgotten the wash of emotions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... ). 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

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their ... significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  really make something of that time? "MIT 09er who's not at ISEF" wrote ... capable not just of doing the work at MIT but capable of much greater things ... that. In fact, most of my friends at MIT were like me -- no HS research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  weenie. So since some of the categories don't have many entries at the ... across campus, especially at 2 AM. All types of freshman advising, I ought ... 't accept AP credit, but require that premed classes be taken at a university

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  "US KIDS KNOW!" at the Arcade Fire, one of my favorite bands that never ... New York, pulling all-nighters, cutting hair. Yet, leaving the place ... . My freshman year at MIT is over. I am an EMT, a driver of ambulances, a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < You can ... MIT, and we have offered early admission to 656. These students hail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  Bryant Park have in common? Besides all being located in New York City, they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... panel discussion at the U.N. and also took a tour: In front of the U

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  . Interest in miraculin spiked after a May 2008 New York Times article on “flavor-tripping parties” in New York and again in 2011, correlated ... strong new flavor of sweet layered over the already present strawberry

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  this term, wrote an opera based on The Great Gatsby that was premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I think that thus far, 5.13 has been my absolute favorite class at MIT. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  new course 20) was limited to 20 students for the class of 2009. Was it ... acceptance forms to MIT at the beginning of this week. I was discussing my ... they want to study engineering, while other universities offer wider

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  , microstructure of stock exchanges and initial public offerings. Her current ... Kellogg is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan ... shape new macro-level institutions of work and family in society. Before

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

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  done this at some point, so if you know of a blogger who already has ... ? How easy is it to meet all the different types of people at MIT ... to university in the states and MIT is one Im looking at. Well

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a ... For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... many ideas, and having learned something new. This year, some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , then a senior at Stuyvesant High School in New York City, scored 34 out ... 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  battleground at Concord (plus a lot of other really cool places). But the fun ... being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... that would, or could, happen at any other university. But after thinking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  ," finalist in the category of Materials Science, representing the New York City ... the category of Biomedical Engineering, representing the New York State ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  , how far can you go? At the end of the day, no one gets out alive.” New ... that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius ... idea of at least what direction you're going, but, if you have one, don

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the ... that were discovered or researched here at Cambridge University. The ... Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014