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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship ... kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... in Green Bank, WV is located in the nation's only radio-quiet zone that spans approximately 15,000 square miles in area. (fact check!: 13,000 sq

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  So I've been spending some time in my hometown over Winter Break, and this time, I know it's probably the last time that I'll sleep in my bed ... in one of those neighborhoods where your elementary school was one

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and ... Unni, how are you supposed to put the lock in the holder?" "You slide it in." "I am sliding it in." "Hold it so it looks like a U, not a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  impressive and inspiring and wonderful, etc. In the past few days, a few ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander ... later in the semester, but the dinners need to be in by late October for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , <3). There are many Mexican restaurants in the surrounding area (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students gave a presentation on the best Mexican restaurants in Boston, and in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision before the May 1st deadline." No worries - we will mail in mid-march, a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of ... -Recorder, a newspaper focused on the African-American community in Minnesota ... gave to the store clerk and the cash she received in return. Thus began

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel ... of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  school students in an original, new, one-hour unscripted series that will ... demonstrate excellence in the areas of academics, leadership, creativity and ... about the show in yesterday's New York Times, I learned something I didn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  legal. The very first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the USA ... to answer in time, but i'm STILL struggling to decide between Yale and MIT. I love science but I'm also very interested in International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  is a transcript of his Nobel lecture in Oslo here (sadly, a PDF file ... his reading applications in the four years I've worked in the office ... people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  we're all scattered across the country in quarantine, we thought the ... DTYD in the Minecraft version of Porter Room, the room where it usually takes place. A lot of us have building permissions in the MIT Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for [annotation note="In fact, MIT in the early twentieth century was often referred ... a fatal loophole in the founding charter, that you can actually study

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  post.) I was born in America, but my parents and grandparents were born in Seoul. I've heard stories from my grandparents about their memories ... opinions about Japan. "In the international age that is the present, why are

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my ... ’t believe it! MIT is like this entirely new planet in which I am yet to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book--called Let The Great World Spin--by Colum McCann, whom Yuliya mentioned in this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that ... that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in ... in the areas that are most interesting to them. We want students to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016