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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... ...close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that morning, and ... !" I stood up and glanced around; no one around me had an exam, either

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

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  and took this picture. So, as a licensed history teacher in the state ... controversy, we just had a blogger deftly navigate an analysis of the Penn State ... tower is still standing with that huge gaping hole in it." And then

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  , and home state or country. There is no prize for "winning" except that I ... for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... , East Campus, Senior Haus, and Random Hall are "East" (even though Random

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  optimization and low-level programming languages during my master’s degree, which ... article about Gen Z and the job market. As you can see, the word ... what I remember (please note my memory is faulty and not subject to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be ... 's say you're a student who's interested in MIT, and you want to continue ... going to open mic sessions and symphony hall performances - if you end up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  !"]self-care and destress routine. [/annotation] Watching Steven Universe The Movie ... ="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior ... to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in ... help bring MPG here, in no small part because math is awesome and math girls are awesome and MPG is awesome and we like to have as much awesome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  to Solid State Chemistry. Professor Don Sadoway, arguably the best and ... (tonight's showings apparently include Gankutsuou 2-3 and Paranoia Agent 1 ... .091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... -on-one conversations with students about their dreams and aspirations, and I hope that I ... of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  highlighted those changes and sent me off on another period of intense personal ... with writer’s block, so I called my parents today and asked them to share how they think I’ve changed over the last year and a half. I think I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... quite good, and I have earned a complete scholarship for attending the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  is the Siemens Research Competition. MIT is a University Partner for Siemens, which means that we 'host' a (virtual) regional event and provide ... flyers, in both English and Spanish at the Siemens Research Competition

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  Application is live and available for download. A few important notes and ... , complete, and mail the MIT Transfer Application to MIT Admissions ... only available for US citizens and permanent residents. Students without

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  2005 Research Science Institute (RSI). I arrived here late last evening ... you and your lives. Because I do not work for the CEE or for MITE2S, I ... MIT. My travels frequently mean missing cool events at MIT, and this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  this process are the so-called Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  respects: Vice President Joe Biden, MIT President Rafael Reif, and Sean ... demonstrate the values and character of Officer Collier. And his family has ... -Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  ) because even though the Institute was on "lateness excused" policy and some ... something mildly funny that happened this morning and then I was all, "Why am I telling you this? I should blog about it." and then he was all, "You

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Institute Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer ... an actual valentine, and it features a picture of a droid that can ... valentines. More on classes, work, and your strange obsession with leaving

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  letter of the law, and yet he must not be impracticable. Institutions must ... rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find ... afternoon. then i walked down newbury street from mass ave to the library and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016