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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  4 people instead of a long hallway with 40 is definitely very ... , but I also find myself alone in a quiet house a lot more than I used to ... away! ...okay, it's not that far (in fact it's a distance that many

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub ... concert. There was some tie-in with Verizon's release of a newer ... few hours in Central Square -- not a far walk from MIT at all. Not a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... from MIT; he is now a professor at Berkeley. If his surname sounds ... Roger Kornberg, a professor at Stanford, won the Nobel prize in Chemistry

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  "]sits on my shoulders[/annotation] is locked in a storage unit in Charlestown ... to SFS[/annotation] about what is included in a financial aid award ... 'm sitting here in a corporate coffee shop chain, typing on my laptop, Cynthia

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was ... Washington University in St. Louis, and down the hall was a colleague from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  on anonymous MIT Confessions. 1. A summer discovery In my freshman year ... room, in a [annotation note="the low-rise (specifically, H Entry ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed ... . The highlight for many alums is the "Class Notes" section, a regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  intro out of the way: my name is Max Burns, and I majored in course 2A ... a lot of reasons. Partly because his story is not unusual in the ways ... one visit in rural Ohio (one stop on a trip through Northern Appalachia

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... ", or "root-level" friend is one that you personally know and like. A ... I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  , or hold a big meeting in every city. And not every student interested ... . backchan.nl is a tool designed here at the Media Lab by MIT student Drew ... during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  bitterly cold out, so as soon as i got home, i bundled myself in a ton of blankets and napped. the rest of the day passed in a delightful bliss, and ... ; The Vagina Monologues is a play about female sexuality and empowerment

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... interruption. In the end, he graduated with a quadruple major (this is no longer allowed -- now the maximum is a double major): SB in Chemical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  submissions of art, music, etc, but it is starting to get a little late in the ... ) is a four day event which is only for admitted students and their ... weekend on their MIT portal; in fewer than two weeks, we will send out a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  who receive a "big envelope" in the mail, it's not because we ... mailing. In the meantime, there were a few interesting stories in today ... , who had a role in the movie "Coach Carter." During the film's production

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  information in order to make a decision, but there is no substitute for ... Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury ... with my family, before leaving for the next leg in my trip -- a layover ... (the German equivalent of a high school) in Essen --  Leibniz Gymnasium

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... squeeze it into the margin. I hope you'll notice that I actually added a ... entire sheet of looseleaf paper) But there is light at the end of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  about their groups. Check it out! WARNING: The host (me) is wearing a ... valedictorian). Anyway, "White & Nerdy" is a parody of "Ridin'" (Ridin' Dirty ... contains a piece about the annual Freshman Photograph, the Kendall Square Bio

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  , who's in that other office, found a surprising picture of me under his ... hid in the biggest one, on top of the bed. Heroically maintaining a ... . The company is one of the big plusses of a summer research program. On

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an ... A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street ... fundamentally unfair. Selective college admissions is a zero sum game: every

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012