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  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  the record, setting a new mark of 51 seconds! This spring, you can see ... You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• 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 ... , I have had to cross the Charles at some point. Each of them are so ... that bridges represent a central tenet of my life, at least my education

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

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... classes, new friends, and new paths to explore. If there are any of you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  coaster at East Campus, won a game of Scrabble, not done laundry, jumped on ... stack of free bowls, devoured pancakes at 4 AM, walked through a room ... at MIT, and it's clear that the insanely complex flavors of this

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

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... intimidating. Like they're all just plain better at math than me. I kind of feel

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph ... D) Administrator at Duke VP of technical services company (formerly in the Air ... 's, University of London MBBS) Medical doctor - physical medicine and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  arrived at our location—one of my high school’s other national branches ... of the pool, marveling at its surface, thinking that it was almost ... at the end of the day, the ability to lay back in water, simply

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  colleges I had a chance at getting into. It’s too bad all of those answers ... chance of getting admitted, that these top-tier universities were way out ... applicant, you think that MIT is “out of your league” because you looked at a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... time (you'd be surprised at how much mathematics was involved). Then, of ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  'll just lecture at you, and you'll just be another face in a sea of 200 ... Simmons) pay $300 at the beginning of a semester to help keep the dining ... students who qualify for the SAT waivers, which can be used at good number of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  that. all i wanted, at that moment, was to write a single line of code ... know when it’s coming. you’re sitting in front of your laptop, staring at ... hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... noticed three of my fellow passengers staring somewhat obviously at my shirt ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone ... ). As undergrads at the University of Cape Town, they marveled over the ... have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I ... number of artistically talented people at MIT. Maybe you're a quarterback ... a research lab at your local university...anything, really, as long as

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... . Ayomide is a junior at MIT (Class of 2018) who studies Chemical Engineering

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  classes at a (very good) (but not as stimulating) university, and the two ... didn’t erode my confidence, but it’s still there, nagging at the back of ... of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... possibly imagine must be at work here (or at least concerned with whether or

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only ... ahead into the '06, I offer this quote from one of my favorite writers ... Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I've been absent

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I ... start to discover new layers of your personality and your relationships

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... into your first week of class at MIT sleep-deprived, which… you'd survive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019