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• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering ... immunology. Melis is (according to this list) the 38th MIT student to win the ... coverage of the Rhodes announcement: It occurred to Melis N. Anahtar's family

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide advice and tips wherever ... students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  require frequent missions to deliver fuel, food, and spare parts. Two MIT professors have created a software tool to model interplanetary supply chains ... ://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=6275565 3/26/07: An MIT doctoral student studies how addicted people are to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague ... focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We're going to take these corn cobs and corn husks and this briquette press

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  some reason, I waited until senior year to take the mandatory swim test, but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating ... , which gives "MIT students the opportunity to learn about ways that they

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... admitted. I've responded to each email with a slightly different version of the same answer, because it's the only answer I have to offer. And here

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the ... Princess Leia" and "When You're Good to Jabba" and "City on a Cloud" and "One ... to see The Aristocrats at LSC next weekend, I'm afraid that this may

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World". It's certainly interesting to travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 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…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed ... over the phone to the applicant only. People have asked about the ... of the early pool, I must say just how difficult it was to narrow it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . Yesterday was also the deadline to schedule the early action interview. What should you do if you missed it? Well, obviously, you first need to know who ... .253.3400) and we can tell you who that person is. Also, you need to contact that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was ... > weather," that I got it down to about 1300, which is still pretty bad. then, I just decided to write about the most recent (I think?) 105 tabs open

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students ... asked them to animate and score a Pi Day video…even though they had almost

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  and I really want to give you guys everything I can, as far as the past ... in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what I have almost always wanted to work on. For those of you that have

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it ... , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  that turned out to consist mostly of resume workshops and recruiters from chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events ... not expect to like Houston. But now I understand the phrase "southern

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break ... .” Mystery resolved, the fruitcake was donated to Random Hall and East Campus, to be divided unequally amongst 400 or so residents. 2.The Choir Party

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  on campus—and there shouldn’t be any reason for me to like it this much ... lanyard holds the key to my soon-to-be home, even if it lacks keys to any of the many residence houses. I’m not going to say that I’m going to love

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common ... apostrophe. So you would say "my boss' shenanigans." This is fascinating to me ... , I was inspired to do more research into this grammatical phenomenon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  The Quiz: HEY GUYS UPDATE THE LINK DOESNT WORK ANYMORE ILL TRY TO FIX ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms overall. The plan was to create some questions and disseminate them through

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025