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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it didn't happen in a fancy board room or anything -- they held it in a normal MIT classroom (it looks a lot like the room where I took 18

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  little while, we caught the wind and picked up speed. Bubblessss. It ... onto the dock, all I could think about was how happy I was at that moment ... , sailing completely eclipsed all of that. It was definitely a night to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  note that MIT is not a member of the Common Application. MIT has its own ... until September. Please be patient -- besides, you already know how the app works. ...I think that's it, for now, anyway. As the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  investigating how math has affected the rise and fall of civilizations over time ... year in selection committee, but it will also make this class as talented ... and the other metrics, but it is also true of the less measurable but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  Honors Chemistry. It was a video about VSEPR and gas laws produced by the ... , no matter how hard you try." Hey, this was intended for high school ... was not difficult--alas, however, it turned out that the questionable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  competition. Maybe, I'll win this year? So to hear Professor Slocum tell it, each of us has an equally probable chance of winning because a lot of it ... case is to learn a lot about the design process and what it takes to be a

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  With all these applications, it's tough to find time to blog. There ... charter fishing boat is only as good as its fish finder. That's the sonar ... to catch them, though, it may help protect fish by enabling

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... perceived as an "Affirmative Action admit." Instead, you want it known that ... . So why then do we ask for this information? Simple - it helps us to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... subject laid in while it was spun at high speeds. Her research focused on ... while they spun followed by subjective data about how the subjects felt

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• 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 ... and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of

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

  Decisions mailed;

  

  room for them in the class. It has been our most competitive year ever ... helpful for you this year, no matter how things turn out for you. I can ... , it's my birthday, etc.), but we won't release any decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  It Be—but I didn't consider myself well-versed in the Beatles ... movement and learned of the Beatles' role in it. They not only helped ... I ended up rearranging my schedule so I could take it. The class is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  confusing, especially considering how many different visualizations there are [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By ... mean, it looks like a plane at a given location (if you suppose that you

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  experience. Look how Prof. Diaz signed it, too! What a great man. #13. Find ... I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... doing yet, and GOSH DERN IT I'M GONNA DO 'EM, FOOLS! I am proud to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  . My roommate couldn't figure it out either, so I decided to ask Melis for help over AIM -- she patiently explained to me how to solve it, but ... MIT. Everyone there told me how it was the best engineering school and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  Singalong! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much this event ... I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  ridiculous number of TV shows. It's been fabulous! The test itself was pretty ... flashcards with me when I was riding the T somewhere. I admit it's kind of ... . That way, when you sit down for the actual MCAT, it'll feel just like

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  admission to the MFA and ICA, among other museums in the Boston area, and it ... learned how to set type, design a layout, and print our work on a handmade ... is so full it can't lay flat anymore. I still have some pages left for

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

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  MIT is quite remarkable in its constant pedagogical experiments and ... recitation instructors know how many students had listened to (or at least downloaded) each lecture, as well as how many problems on the tutor they had

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  Internship Program (F/ASIP). It's a 6-unit graded seminar that teaches you how ... allowed me to live at home. For this summer, it was more economical and ... publications! Andddd, it's known to be more relaxed than a job in industry, with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006