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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion ... ). As an MIT student, Riess joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and ... Square and Fenway Park. The Phi Delts have a beautiful house overlooking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... ." If you went, you saw me and the other bloggers in all our glory. It was ... grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  lending a book out can approach $2 for some libraries; printing out a black-and ... 're happy to be open and available for you. ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  - send me a picture of something cool you did/are doing this summer, and I ... with MIT (year, or year of application for potentials) anything ... your picture sizes reasonable! (so it doesn't take forever for me to load

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  cogeneration plants (those output both power and heat) by channeling the waste heat into heating for surrounding buildings. Yay! Where was I? Oh, spring vacation. I used to go home for spring break, but since I don

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from them was a big step for me in my origami design journey, and this ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  all grades that you do have for this year, and we’ll work with what we ... forms… the February Updates and Notes (FUN) form. tl;dr: the FUN form is ... not. Access it through your MyMIT and submit it by Feb. 15! Now, if you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  tears. But he's not. He's remembered for picking himself up and making a ... with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks. If you look close enough, you can see the barge responsible for all the excited electrons in the sky. I stopped by Ashdown (grad dorm) for free

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss ...und mein Leben ein Ziel hat.

  

  assignments for most of my classes are due this week. That means that while the weather has been clear and 65 outside, for me it's just gonna be overcast ... to complain, but, hey, it's pretty much the same for ninety percent of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  So after getting a few questions and comments about DesigNerds, I ... ." cool, eh? There's no website yet for the project, but you can check out ... Archimedes Death Ray myth. For more on that, you can look here, or if you

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  a target on this number). We will go into committee about a week and a ... nearer. Look for me in the crowds Thursday morning at the Macy ... the weekend reading applications! No Thanksgiving break for us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  for our feedback on the ride (with the promise of free candy!) and I ... . Sure, I could accept responsibility for my own poor sense of direction, but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an appetizer of brie sprinkled in candied walnuts, wrapped in puff pastry, and ... 't bode well for my dish. Well it turns out there's a big Whole Foods

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  off campus" goal uber one for the five month free trial and uber ... be the year when things 'get real', at least as a Mech-e, and I found ... to your second year than the "sophomore slump", and certainly much more

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not ... Archive section. Right now you can watch the Mollie/Christina and Dr ... and discover what MIT is really like. The videos are one way to discover

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  honor society) social chair and a generous invitation from a biochemical ... and Shannon "Optimus Prime" '05 -- remember their engagement party last ... has composed scores for scores of major motion pictures, including the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night, I had dinner at a Spanish restaurant, Iruna, and tonight, I had dinner ... applications, before heading to Teele Square for my usual Tuesday night pub

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  .A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem ...  Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  . The bloggers are a diverse and multifaceted bunch, but there are ... as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note ... represented here is still some extension of myself and those who are closest to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022