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  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes ... beyond any ability of ours to measure. What do things look like just at the instant's action at the edge of the universe? What is just beyond that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I swear) for eight years at a time, but finals were busy, and summer came

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  % of my experience at MIT was being a first year, and man did it feel ... experience at MIT. Now, ending my junior year, a mere 1/3 of my life at the ... Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors ... ; at MIT for Fall 2006, MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... interaction that is at the core of much true creativity -- and thus in the great ... Very frequently, we are asked about the humanities and arts at MIT. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation ... (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... ’s kind of crazy how four years ago on this exact day, I was deferred from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  good bonfire, our group of five decided to take a look at what was ... , mother and son. At a call, two members of the family had to pick up the ... group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... level of anxiousness climbing, I stepped into a taxi with a fellow ‘15er and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  cacophonic calls of "Cocoa! Cocoa!" echo through East Campus. Or at least we ... Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  has a ton of steps any of which if you sit on them, you get whistled at ... So the first night in Rome was spent pretty casually. We arrived at ... first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  dinner at one of Boston's yummy Russian-Armenian restaurants, Cafe Levonya ... 's house and ending at the previously mentioned Eric's house. Did any of you ... one of their specialties) was even better than advertised. Then the Red

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty MIT students tried to better their Spanish, interned at local companies

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... training for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University ... here on out. Our week-long training was almost entirely composed of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen ... idea of what we do in the program by taking a look at all the students ... is a freshman preorientation program (FPOP) at MIT, which I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging ... !) checking out the Boston Marathon hanging out with prefrosh at my fraternity ... of the MIT Undergraduate Research Journal preparing for MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  Cornell. When the poll closed at midnight on May 22, MIT had 48 percent of ... For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip ... her around campus next year...at least in The Tech. Here's today

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  . Unfortunately most of them have no descriptions or pictures yet, but it at least ... at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime ... attracted quite a bit of news coverage. CBS Boston video The Boston Channel

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Sciences, I set up my camera to take a picture with birthday boy Albert. What was I doing at the National Academy of Sciences? I was there for the public exhibition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  nonlinear series of glimpses into my freshman year at MIT: —   ... “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... about the college experience that drew me. Fresh out of high school, with

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... . Because of Baby Rudin and 18.100B, I can now say that I've stared at a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021