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• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends ... Many of you have already received it, but for those of you anxiously awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened ... is to please be patient as you watch the application tracking system on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  anything but a kind of pure, unadulterated hope for the coming semester. It ... people in the hallways. It will be hard for us to recover after such a ... [annotation note="the demonym for our wing"]Shirefolk,[/annotation] and we hope

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... floor is dating Loop, the southern half of the second floor, flowers and dinner included. Tonight we are in Destiny kitchen.   The MacBook is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  is situated in Tribeca, right on the Hudson River. It is pretty ... garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents, rainwater is stored and used to water the garden, wastewater is treated in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her ... Transnational Cultures. Video of the latter is available in the Language Learning ... purchased tickets for us in advance and offered them at half the cost. Many

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  trend is of serious concern because it projects the global collapse of all ... clear trend, and it is accelerating. If the long-term trend continues, all ... 's too late? This is precisely the topic of Mission 2011. Mission, or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  studied the nights before for many hours, doing review problems and re ... friends who had taken the exam earlier and said "Don't worry, this is the easy exam". Come the second exams for each of my three classes and I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  .042 (Math for Computer Science) is a really interesting class. I guess the ... Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... although MIT is indubitably hard, much of the difficulty is self

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Institute for Basic Research, which is run out of a PO Box in Florida. The new ... DID YOU KNOW? The song "Holland 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel is about ... correct answers. That is not uncommon for MIT. Today in UROP Andy presented

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  def hackMIT(); cool code & company

  

      P.S: This is the only bit of coding I did this weekend. Stay tuned for the next three HackMITs to hear about a possible project ;)  

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ZigZag Episode 8 A new video podcast episode.

  

  Episode 8 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now; I serve as host for this episode. My favorite part was getting to interview the "red jackets," MIT's 50 year reunion class: the Class of 1956. Check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in the country where they study.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  one of the first classes in algebra so it is a prerequisite for a lot of ... as a tool for topology, it is interesting to look deeper into the actual algebra and gaining intuition for that.  The professor is a great

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  greater excitement in the streets of Palermo. For France, though, all they have to look forward to is a down market. According to this article, the ... first trading day after a country's team is eliminated from the World Cup

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  concentrated (85% and 99%) pieces. Organization is key. Like the characters ... email: "Every year, the Laboratory for Chocolate Science makes truffles to sell for Valentines Day. Naturally, this year is no different! Please

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  preparation for the meeting, we were all assigned the same three applications to ... " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was ... is completely true: we are indeed looking for human beings in every

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... interesting for the entire family. MIT offers information sessions followed by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  actually sure what the J "stands for," but it means that a course is offered ... Development This is it, the moment you've all been waiting for. Course 2 majors ... course instructor is supposed to be really, really good. Yay for HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  —Professor Eddie Farhi, Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics—found himself ... in his lap, and began to explain the search for a bizarre particle ... at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is a massive particle

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015