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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  humanities? My response is if they want to spend four years studying 18th ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  'm referring to my 8.022 pset, my 18.03 pset, my big humanities paper, my 20.020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is almost ready to hit the presses, which means the chief editors and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  : Dear Undergraduates, Have you ever wanted to make a difference? Have you ever wanted to show people that you have some power? Have you ever wanted ... Committee on Student Life is proud to present to you a new initiative

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  Oh hai world! Welcome to my very first official MIT blog entry ... year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people ... is that it's really too cold to go outside and play for any significant

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for ... Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  recommendation gets to MIT before anything else?" I'd like to answer all questions ... parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... to blog. I moved to Burton-Conner this year, which, much like East Campus, has very different floor cultures, so I'm very happy to say that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K. Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some reason, people don't seem to realize that you can come to MIT, major in ... political science and economics), and then go to law school. Actually, surveys

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... question! First up is Fangfei, who went to the Long Island Party: MIT has ... my list of college applications. MIT eventually came back to being my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... an entry this is going to make! Well, it turns out that MIT is such an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife tried valiantly (15+ hours) to deliver naturally. Considering his size and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to ... . My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to ... 't get to go. While anxiously waiting for their return, I've been pursuing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have to send the December scores again or will collegeboard still be sending

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... penalty of law and all that stuff concerning your right to privacy, I am

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and ... always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help ... 'm giving attention to those things, I'm constantly worried about my read rate

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  . Pharmaceutical companies are facing enormous pressure to cut cost and increase ... currently developing a bioreactor that may potentially be used to accelerate ... Engineering and Biology majors, along with his Biomedical Engineering minor, to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  People often seem to think that going to an elite school ... undergrads are destined to get short shrift. Apparently undergrads are less fun ... 're not herded into giant classes like so many moo cows. According to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005