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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an ... widely seen as Nobel-caliber. So, coming off of that disappointment, I ... principle of metathesis. What is that? Organic substances contain the element

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best times of the year. This will, of course, be my third - I've had one from the freshman point of view and one from the upperclassman point of view

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... We excited prefrosh also received the results of the HASS-D lottery. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... budget master) 2) Mari McQuaid, Assistant Director of Admissions 3) Martha Edison, writer and master wordsmith 4) Bryan Nance, Director of Minority

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to ... Office: MIT physicists create new form of matter June 22, 2005 CAMBRIDGE

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  speaker will be Irwin Jacobs, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm ... 't know what Jacobs will say, but here is a list of previous MIT ... , Director of NIH 2003, George Mitchell, former US Senator 2002, James

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had ... second year. But the "serious" stuff was only one part of the day. We also

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... February 28.) Salvador takes 5 days of vacation in December and 2 days in

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can ... and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the ... inexcusable and all of us are beside ourselves in embarassment and frustration. We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Sciences, I set up my ... the National Academy of Sciences? I was there for the public exhibition of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback ... syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and disciplinary areas and encourages the development of sensibilities and skills
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of ... who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  Ciao. It is I, Jacky of the French Dormitory. My culinary journey, as ... that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  content warning: mention of suicide. one I'm sick of all this, "How ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... with them. i'm on top of my work, and i don't want to kill myself. on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  meal. It was a way of giving the graduate students, many of whom had all of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... would always be written in this mishmash of Chinese and English: dishes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... of college coursework. So that's what I'm providing here: rough outlines and hand-wavy explanations of the topics I've covered, sort of as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of ... meaning of the word enough, could also mean something expensive, valuable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020