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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  makes 3 current or emeritus faculty (Diamond, Robert Merton PhD '70, and Robert Solow) and 9 alumni (including Diamond and Merton) who have won the Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved. As luck should have it, "the day" came on July 7th of 2008, and now ... I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own ... /cabinet/shelf (or whatever method of food storage you might use) and concoct a meat ... included chicken, tomatoes, onions, black beans and pasta. My variety of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with ... -midnight residential Cambridge and instead found a page of half-finished notes wrung from ... structure of space and time science is nothing but an extended frame of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 ... cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret ... lemmings gleefully leaping to their deaths on YouTube. I shift forward and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  I'm up early. I'm up REALLY early, and it's not because I stayed up ... " and it's a wee bit difficult. Difficult in that since Friday morning at ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a pain and I know ... of orgo I've got a pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh Do ... pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh I keep rhyming but I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  As per usual, CPW has again come and again, all of the prefrosh will ... fire, run around campus at odd hours of the night, watch NextACT, and ... ago and we continued it last year (with some issues, but we'll fix those

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  flame wars and being used correctly, it's also a great way to let somebody ... me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about presenting ElectroPlushies at an upcoming MIT Science and Engineering Business

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Conner 2 Trip to the North End Bother bother bother bother

  

  A bunch of people from my floor decided to go to the North End to get pizza and pastries the other night. I didn't feel like writing about it so ... look like if you were an MIT student and went to the North End. Enjoy!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and ... filtered my restaurants such that they had free delivery and chicken wings ... be quite good, and cheap. I clicked on it and was taken to the ever

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and ... . As a Nextie, I had a choice between traditional and seminar advising ... , discuss classes, etc. Seminar advising is all this, and more! You meet with

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... wanted to write about Early Action and Regular Action (EA and RA) since we'd been getting a lot of questions lately. Lo and behold, while looking for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I ... I'll spare you and just add it to this entry. I was exploring the Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Magazine, Wikipedia, and NPR's This American Life. Lots of MIT students ... Lobby 7. Paul and I will be on Smallish Momenta (an anagram of "Simmons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  ? How about the letter from Ms. Chu? And my transcript? Weren't they all sent before the deadline? And am I in trouble? Let's take the last ... up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  was really kind of terrible form, I know. But Ben and my mom are ... was taught in 1980 by Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, the authors of its companion book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which also

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... Building. Intrigued, I wandered over and began to notice a few strange shapes ... MIT. In my humble opinion, and the opinion of millions of fans, it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend ... 'll be speaking "on the role of the Fed and recent economic conditions ... Ensemble and is directed by MIT Theater Arts Professor Tommy De

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007