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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  this time to figure out how we function as a unit. We elected officers ... administration had plans to increase camaraderie among graduate dorms, to alleviate the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  , be specific about how your college or university contributed to these ... from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they ... uninteresting person, this translates to me rarely blogging. Stay tuned, though

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J ... model, so we got to go outside and take measurements under cloudy skies

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  It's sort of funny how some of the most interesting things happen ... lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... " beneath the Green Building - one of MIT's academic buildings, home to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  't even sweat it. It never hurts to know how to do a chi-square test (or to ... policies are subject to change for each entering class. Please refer to this page for up-to-date information on AP and transfer credit.] Remember

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can ... decision, how can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to ... Continuing on the thread began yesterday... With 10 days to go until

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... said that Foulke had flown to Birmingham, Alabama, last week to see Dr ... information, I went to ESPN's Peter Gammons, who wrote: Keith Foulke took last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  . I used US News & World to see how the program was ranked. Then I ... down to how many classes are pure meche versus how many are applied to ... a better engineer. The question, then, is how much of this I want to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  scoring system is unique. [Kayode doesn’t know how to get perfect clears ... conditions that can trigger, or cause the game to like– you know how there ... take a minute to eat at this point]   How many people have done

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of ... former Associate Director of Admissions https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how-to ... lil' bit about me 0:36 Why you DON'T need to stress out 1:21 What "being

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  the Maker Portfolio, Dawn gave a talk at Maker Faire Bay Area about how technically creative students ought to pitch their projects to colleges. Last ... World Maker Faire New York about how we admit and empower these kinds of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do. Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement ... Commencement speakers, with a link to their speech: 2004, Elias Zerhouni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  to be ridiculously sick on several major holidays throughout my life, and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... to a single white blood cell, lovingly known as Theodore. (Actual text

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT ... . Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will ... objects from Koch's many collections -- from ancient Roman to contemporary

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  the same roof Secrets were whispered Whatever happens to us Wherever you ... contingent of roughly twenty or so people to PUMAC every year as volunteers, which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019