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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed “Shakespeare.” The book was about astronomy research at an observatory in the ... ’s] points of equilibrium.” An academic career often entails moving: in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... lines as "the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  he was, hanging out in Lobby 7, waiting for the hunt to begin! He said ... welcomed as the newest agents for S.P.I.E.S. (an acronym which stands for ... feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and ... they've been struggling to find an "Algebra for Kids!" book. I said that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  (such as the authors of Hogwarts textbooks) and have an intense ... this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while ... caught up in racing to get all my work done this sophomore fall that for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them. Sometimes, with the author's permission, I blog these emails, like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  public key y. for instance, in rsa encryption, the private key is basically ... . maybe an author wants to try experimenting with a new writing style, but ... -world identity of course there is potential for abuse here. for instance, in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  American variety) and an international movie in the lounge immediately ... highlighting done for you? ;) THURSDAY night, 7-9pm+, iHouse International Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Microsoft, for example): As in China, the benefits of global economic ... horns every second, toss in a few bulls for good measure, and you have ... ;m giving the thumbs-up because we haven’t gotten in an accident

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... looking for the right plug (THERE ARE SO MANY PLUGS AND CORDS IN THAT ROOM ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Arrow Award for the Best Paper in Health Economics in 1994.  He was also ... , and in 2006 became an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board, the main implementing body for that effort.  In that year, he was named

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  on the flashlight by my pillow and watched my breath in the air for a ... 'd dressed in layers. The early morning hours (6am wakeup time) called for ... for telescopes, that I decided I could be an astrophysicist. V. We

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , in a way, I was. Science isn't celebrated enough in our society, and I think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science ... struck me on the day after Einstein's birthday, two weeks after an article

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American ... all the chairs in the microscope room are too short for me to see the ... longer!) have an explicit policy of not accepting MIT undergrads for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  . UPDATE: I also wrote a post like this for 2020, 2021, and 2022. Things I read for class All of these things I read for 21W.022, Reading and Writing Autobiography. We read a lot of things in that class, and here are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  , having written an initial draft for [annotation note="reading and writing ... their extended family in China, and touches on a lot of themes I find ... .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  family live in Underwood Homes. It's an Augusta housing project plagued by ... , 2009 It’s very parents dream... for their child to graduate high ... . Augusta, GA—It’s packing day for 17-year-old Terence Dalbert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  Thing, and phrase it in the best and worst possible ways. an example could ... programs from events i’ve gone to in the past year or so. the exams were an ... have a special place in my heart because i was briefly in it for two

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  put on things, trying to be something for everyone.” In USA Today ... have all of those AP classes and all of those activities." And in an ... MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  in the Aero/Astro department. One of the professors is Jeff Hoffman, an ... are familiar with it, I'm playing Little Sally. Lesson plan for an ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012