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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  , who is just 41 years old, shares the prize with fellow researchers Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  Recently Evan's mother, who is, for the record, so cool, sent the ... be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this ... feedback about my writing is an incredible thing. So I'm asking for just a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  . Really great choices. The Concourse program for freshman is not only a ... program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his ... the academics that he doesn”t feel much affinity for otherwise. It was a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the ... . This blog post is a summary of the event ... Taxila despite the 10-20% acceptance rate. You have come prepared for any

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  name is Quinton McArthur and I am the Assistant Director for Minority ... Inspired by the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme Song Now this is the ... Assistant Director for Minority Recruitment at MIT…..which is in Kendall

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just sos ya knows. "The Walk" by Mayer Hawthorne - This is the kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  find out how deep it is. It takes T = 4 seconds for the stone to drop ... to Prof Mahajan, the answer is problematic for one specific reason: it ... -1 into the machines. The calculator habit is so strong that even 5

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn or sermon, but it's not. It's the title for this post. It's quite fun ... the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  If a QB applicant is admitted EA/RA, will they receive full financial aid?

  MIT practices need-blind admissions for all students, regardless of ... . This usually means an award similar to the College Match Scholarship. MIT Admissions doesn't oversee the financial aid process—we leave that
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  Hi folks, I see in the comments from my last entry that MyMIT is telling people that decisions have been mailed. I've asked the tech folks to ... from finalizing any decisions, let alone mailing them. Looks like the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  Please remember that January 1 is the postmark deadline for students ... Application Tracking. Our records office is fully staffed over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing all of the application pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  for the pictures)  I strongly suspect the Class of 2020 is trying to ... few years ago, for example, we challenged students to hack their tubes; one aeronautical adMIT sent hers into space. This past spring, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  the class is one of the most rewarding moments of the admissions cycle. I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... 've been thinking about that's open for discussion. The announcement of MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  admitted from the wiatlist." The reality is that predicting yield is very ... -- and I am hopeful that we will -- the odds are that it won't be for large ... still turn out well for you in the end. What should I do about the May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  -001 is officially the single coolest room I've ever seen. It's so cool ... . This is what you seen as soon as you walk into the Media Lab, building E ... doors. Here is the first glimpse you get of the Lego Learning Lab: And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  so much for taking the time and effort to apply. Writing for an ... After much deliberation over the 66 applications we received this ... also endearing memories at MITES, and knows her best friends better than

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  . "weird"? Except for Simmons, which is across the athletic field from the ... setting is more industrial than for the rest of West Campus, and the ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Perhaps the most interesting research is the work that surprises ... the hype to see what is really going on with salaries of CEOs in the ... ] suggest that the higher salaries for chief executives can largely be

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

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Sale is a great opportunity to leave the busy world of MIT behind for the ... ;     ArtBeat Festival For me, ArtBeat is a fancier version of the Harvard May ... big city lights and into the "suburbs" of Cambridge (which is where MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  is[annotation note='the thing that really changed my mind for good was ... people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger ... writings. it is especially strange that many people cite the line as coming

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021