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• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) and Nick ... . Professors Xavier Gabaix of the Economics department at MIT and Augustin Landier of the Stern School of Business at New York University went beyond

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with your time than you realize! One of the things that I have learned about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  -warping influence of continued sleep deprivation, my initial 5 days at MIT were about ... -playing robots at the Boston Museum of Science. My team's robots were significantly ... point where a 2-foot-by-4-foot plastic bin at the sidelines of the arena

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  like 5 hours of sleep from making my  [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7 ... exams before Monday morning; this led to some frantic texting of friends to attempt to acquire a copy of the practice exam and answers so that I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... open book and open notes. And it does help, sort of; I think you'd be at ... Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  the plastic-shelled handlebar (?) at the cart-pusher end of the grocery ... capable of speeding along four-lane traffic at 35 mph. We're in the middle ... method of not-going-at-25-mph-anymore requires performance of “the s

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  my brain during the last two weeks, mostly typed at within 4 minutes of ... .] consciousness at the scale of gravity, if neurons could tune to the fine geometric ... and diverse ecology of numerical life forms. to look at an integral and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  talked of making a "left turn at Albuquerque") (No sign of the High School ... ). Apparently the weather was pretty crazy today ("the sky was like at the end of ... ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  . we're not getting paid for any of this. we just like it. at times, it ... swell. but when i look at this list of things that i love about promys, i ... preparing now. kinda scary. i was also asked why i was at promys if a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... 'd expect to hear talk at MIT. But there have been lots of speakers here on ... rest of the crowd replies "Sucks!" You can try this at any movie theater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  pictures and videos from one of the events. [annotation note="ive been mentoring for them for most of my time at mit and have really loved it ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston ... can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that ... I actually spend days of my senior year passing out the latest issue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... best chance at being put where they're happiest. Of course no system is ... live. At the end of REX, you can enter the readjustment lottery, where

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to that fine university. Here is the story of one of the very first students

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under ... , except it was late at night, and the sign was clearly no longer applicable

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  actually gorgeous yesterday, except for the 10 minutes at the proposed ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no ... ... fortuitous signage come back soon! One of my colleagues had a much

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  included about half of the astrophysics faculty at Caltech and MIT, which ... database of acronyms. I vividly remember that Professor Max Tegmark at MIT ... physicist can be. Currently the Feynman professor of Physics at Caltech, one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  shooting stuff out of air cannons, doing a ridiculous physics problem, or ... decisions come out at 1:59 PM, they more than likely will be released ~12

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009