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• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It ... ago now (goodness, I'm old). And it's the age of many of our excellent ... MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day for me, much like the day I bought my Mac, after being vehemently opposed to all things apple, I've shared my dislike and disinterest in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  = awesome. Exams in the same week = not). Now I have my own theories on why ... in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two ... the scheduling for every exam and you get three exams in three days

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I ... before understands what I'm talking about. I don't have much time now, but in the tradition of my last several blog entries, consider this entry

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  23. I do recommend contacting your EC this weekend, if you haven't done ... , I encourage you not to wait until the last minute to finish and submit ... , earthquakes, etc. We'll always be flexible in the case of an "act of God

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  Meditation Monday: Tonight, 10/16 @5:30 pm in 50-005 Meditation ... attainment of inner peace necessary! Dress comfortably. I went to this meditation session tonight -- which I definitely needed after getting my French

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will host a reception at ISEF in Indianapolis.

  

  in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) on ... located above the intersection of Washington and Illinois streets in ... required) to Associate Director of Admissions Matt McGann. I hope you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  coffee - yep, I think I could make that a daily event, especially in the ... new neighbor this summer - a 24-hour Dunkin' Donuts, right in the ... ) and (second) a debate about who makes the best coffee in general

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  way. I'll keep you updated over the course of the day. Let's use this ... and weight guesses will receive gifts from Bryan (Ha! I love hijacking his blog and making promises on his behalf!). Personally I am hoping

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Often I don't even ... Extraordinaire 7) Matt 8) Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment (And I'm taking the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 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 ... by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke with my friend who works in that office, however, who showed me the

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

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... ="aligncenter" width="438"] I couldn't have done it without them![/caption] My team ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain ... computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  algebra class to confirm that I’d made the right decision in leaving Wall ... I blogged last week (also here, and Kirsten did so here) about the ... why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions available online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  ://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.eduYou can log in using the same username and password that you ... in to decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions will be available ... financial aid package and Campus Preview Weekend in the mail next week. The

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  congratulations is in order for Zahir Dossa, who I profiled in my first blog. A ... busy. That being said, I begin with two plugs: -- Check out the second ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Blackjack Team, opens Friday in movie theaters across America. In ... here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is covering the material that it should be. Mugho Pine asked: If you come in ... you'll want to design efficient algorithms, etc. If you were in another

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in ... forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case the competition would go on hold and awards would be given based on the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  You guessed it, I'm finally: And because there are literally so many ... rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019