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• 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 / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds It's crunch time for college decisions.

  

  With 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  While there's no delivery of post today, I can assure you that the good men & women of the United States Postal Service are even as I ... , I can tell you that this year, we denied les than half that number

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8 ... + physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but I do relatively well in just about all my classes. My interests are ... The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new ... cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me ... 're actually functional in college (unlike in high school) 11.Why I'm actually a ... This afternoon, as I was walking past the Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• 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
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  Last weekend was CES 2019, an annual convention in Las Vegas that I ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... element was being suppressed in favor of talking up the product. (I know

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  dramatically changed when I began doing biology research my junior year in high ... understand another world more than anything. After arriving at MIT in 2015 I ... -5 hours a day. Not because I wanted a grade in the class, but because every

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Finally back in the office! When we last left off, I'd just finished ... day, which was neat for me because I was actually born in Philly. My ... 't already. Yum. Tuesday I woke up and drove to East Brunswick HS in NJ to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  , i just ran around the floor screaming me: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room ... Twelve hours ago, Mathura '12 and I had the following gchat

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class ... Wednesdays. My classes don't start until 11 AM each morning, and I have plenty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  . As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and ... Chinatown.     When I turned in my last final on Thursday the 20 ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... study-abroad in South Africa, where I got to meet some of the kindest of ... ) Watch the sunset on a boat in Boston Harbor 18) Retook a class I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I did (even though it wasn ... that going in. I share his sentiments, and will add that I also was on a ... in and enrolling at that school; ironically, I ended up not liking it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  ://www.cnn.com/video/ to watch it =) (I blogged this class back in July) Here I am during ... Ellen Harris, whom I heard speak on Saturday night. Basically, I attended ... (rastrologist?) deliver a speech on economics. And in other news, Mollie '06

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  4 8 15 16 23 42 If you already know what those numbers mean, this entry is for you.

  

  So I'm a Lost fanatic. Long-time readers know that Alias and The OC ... lead. I had lunch with Axiak last week and gave him the numbers. I ... peeps come up with. In the meantime, do you think the numbers are

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1 AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005