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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where ... to interrupt! We’re the MIT Muses. We’re looking for Iain Cheeseman ... ’ve seen him around for the past two years and now I get to see him twice a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ... from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  going behind-the-scenes into the company’s codebase, for me, bordered more ... could now add. For both summers, the early weeks of the internship were ... something of a picture. For Google’s advertising customers, the team I worked

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... Association (or the UA for short, because MIT students love acronyms) aims to ... governing bodies at MIT) in another entry, but for now, what matters most is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a total of 120 possible points. Nearly 4,000 students sat for the exam

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  This afternoon, we began early action selection for the Class of 2010. As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants ... dumplings and finally see Harry Potter. The winter is a great time for movie-going!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  setting. So…..my job is basically developing test questions for the TOEIC ... made any sense. But this is the "growing-up" we've been asking for. Well ... of the day is seeing all the people in western business attire standing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  . Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy ... out if an Admit Pack is coming their way. Sure, it takes the fun out of checking the mail, but y'all are smart, so good for you. But by extension of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and ... registered for the 6 hour ground training.  A week later I found myself sitting ... redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... ("Beethoven to Mahler", for you words people) takes up the baton and covers ... composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I ... anyone who could come up with the best demonstration of chemical wit. My ... Being aromatic is where it's at.. Take it to the bridge! [Bridge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  that the balls have different colors the point here is that for me to ... property of zk-snarks is the following: for any function f that has a finite ... public key y. for instance, in rsa encryption, the private key is basically

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

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  donor. Below is the "grading scale" for how well our class will do on ... Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... the chemical is made of and how they are bonded together ... , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... 'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual ... , no one really knows for sure who executed the hack, but I figure some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It ... MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel ... ", or the costs attendant to searching for employment in down labor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for ... problems for the students to tackle together. If the students reach

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  -relevant because, even though I found and applied for the internship myself, the fact ... that area is the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee. Lausanne is a very Olympics-oriented city. The IOC is headquartered there

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  .F.B. Riemann (1826 - 1866) observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very ... lie on a certain vertical straight line. This has been checked for the first 1,500,000,000 solutions. A proof that it is true for every

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz ... 've even worn a tie (*gasp*) for the occasion! I'm excited but also nervous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004