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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was finally completed in 1994 after decades of blunders in planning, and at fifty kilometers, it's the second-longest rail tunnel in the world ... rain and a strong breeze while waiting in line -- luckily I was under a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So accordingly, I do have an MIT alert. About a month ago, I was chilling in my ... into the project has been very valuable. In a nutshell, what our

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics ... minimizes geography in formation of rich vs. poor nations By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | June 15, 2005 CAMBRIDGE -- Daron Acemoglu grew up in Turkey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan Cafe is the best place in town for soup dumplings (very, very yummy). Taiwan cafe in Boston's Chinatown. Soup dumplings are delicious and fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  'd imagine -- and sometimes, that picture in your head is a bit off -- like ... -awesome)! It's also a time to see some folks we haven't seen in a while. It was ... last fall on the road (so do you). Even then, the image in your head

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the ... time in more than a week. Yes, the regular action selection committee for ... are no "mistakes," and that everything is appropriately considered. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick ... seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow ... 's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  E-3 (admissions summary) card: I: We have your Interview in your ... interview in your folder. We understand that geography can be hard, so we ... or an email/phone call), but we don't have an interview report in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... process, so I feel I should remind folks that P(big envelope in December

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I ... 's how it goes. Y'all don't care about what's going on in the life of a 30

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... that big a deal). There was a knock at the door, and she wheeled in the ... on the airplane. One of the options in the weirdly niche selection was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  lot of time eating brunch in Next dining, and proceed to mess around in ... gym in the morning, and affectionately listen to Alison bemoan bicep ... holy of days), Leo and Athena were sitting in ML. I don’t remember all

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... sense of meaning in different ways - social things help me feel a sense of ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  I've mentioned in the past that I'm taking CMS.335 Short Attention Span Documentary. Abby '20 has blogged about this class in the past, but ... methods of making things sit in the digital world, mainly in the form of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  feel like I have developed my own signature style in cooking – dishes that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the ... grappled with changes in my personal life that led me to question my reason

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

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  in and weld your seat tube. This would be very simple had I in fact ... is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and ... 't burn any holes in the actual seat tube, I welded that. The welds weren

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and ... itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to advise you that learning how to deal with those feelings in a healthy way

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020