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• 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 / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  . Before assuming the presidency of MIT, she was Provost at Yale University ... MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Since his arrival at MIT ... University of California, Santa Barbara. Hammond is a professor of chemical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead ... favorite class at the beginning of the semester to my least favorite nearing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  parts of the application that inform our decision. Admissions decisions at ... thousands of universities across the world, and I know of only a small ... will the lack of indents at the beginning of paragraphs hurt us in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 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 / 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 / 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 / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  day trip to New York. Some of my SSP friends now attend MIT with me, and ... weeks at SSP, my priority was to make as many memories with my new friends ... New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, was really magical.  [carousel

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  . Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... -drawn-from-a-hat prompt had to do with parallel universes. But the best part, at least for ... of people periodically have brilliant ideas which they then go over in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• 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
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university ... finished high school and who will have completed at least one year of college
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  and affiliated companies (collectively, NBC Universal) are the owners of ... similar activities) of the NBC Universal Property or Properties listed below ... that use of the NBC Universal Property or Properties in the manner

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... River and of boats? Every week, I've been meeting at the MIT Sailing ... I spent a lot of my teenage years just being angry at everything and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• 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 / 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 / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at ... .Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in England as a ... of Black Engineers "National Member of the Year." A Leadership New

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  and eating at local restaurants. We ate some of the best New Mexican ... the history of potatoes at the Potato Museum in Idaho, and finished out ... to the efforts of the planning team, the University of Wyoming (Go

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed at least two terms of study with high academic standing at an accredited college, university, technical institute, or
• 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 ... questions of causality: e.g., does my new vaccine help prevent malaria ... employment at all!” In math terms, we’d be saying that the effect of the wage

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy, that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... volunteered at a bunch of Asian community health clinics. Now, I write MCAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014