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• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  had a dream where I visited Snively at his school. I walked in in the ... CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours ... don't, don't worry -- I assure you we have a host for you. CPW invades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week. Now here's how the morning started. I'll admit that I don't read the newspaper or the watch the news as often as I should, but that's why I am glad

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  in a place called "Malinckrodt". (I wasn't an Orientation Leader in ... - basically, I'm hoping that in time her intrinsic fashion sense may somehow rub ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  -rollers in their lounge. The Massachusetts Institute of Trolling: I might minor in this department, but I'm not sure which of the classes I should ... -editing school. As someone who is not that interested in Technology at all, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  I mentioned that I'm in the midst of a summer research program at the ... here with me, and one of them turned 21 three weeks ago. I mentioned that ... C-O regions in the Whirlpool Galaxy, using data from the Very Large

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will ... about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  might remember I spent two months in Uganda that summer under a Public Service Center Fellowship. In June 2009, I traveled to Uganda again with ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  : "where are you right now?" me: "i'm in the green building! what's up ... i woke up this morning and it was COLD. i checked the weather. lo and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , she has a perfect academic record at M.I.T. She has done research in ... in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M.I ... University in England. "I'm tremendously excited," Anahtar, 21, a

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

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  been crammed full like my carry-on. In fact, I just returned from a trip ... after finishing my last final, I was landing in Portland and being greeted ... some rocks to bang on the bigger logs like a chimp in a lab until I made

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  are getting involved). In my time with the team, I've learned so much ... I applied to be a student partner at several VC firms in the area ... getting immersed in startups. But I found that through the 100K I got

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  trucking. I transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been fine ... ), I know that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of ... . Either way, I wish you the best of luck wherever you go, and whatever you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  trucking. I transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been fine ... ), I know that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of ... . Either way, I wish you the best of luck wherever you go, and whatever you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  ). Dear Internet, I am not in Course 2 or 6. Also, I like you a lot. Thanks ... MIT in comMITment, the freshmen are not. Personally, I applied to MIT ... free food than other majors. I just had a great sandwich. In full

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during ... his grad school days at MIT. Random fact: Andrew Fire began his PhD in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  I also know, though, is that there is a certain merit in all of these ... in other outlets. I hope you can sit down and pet a dog. Or paint a ... rejection in your life by no means defines your worth or value. I hope you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... to support students. I considered majoring in Architecture when I was ... . I promised a student interested in dance that I'd post some links here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  (Preface: I am also sorry for disappearing. D:) -- So anyone who knows me knows that I have strange computer habits/superstitions such as keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my ... anymore. Then he asked what I dig. "Blues," I said, "born in New Orleans ... One clear Thursday night long ago I was playing ultimate frisbee on

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009