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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... Caltech, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the inorganic chemistry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  seventh grade. I didn’t imagine life past college admissions. All I knew was ... know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week ... journey with many prizes along the way, if you choose to accept it. If you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  This morning, MIT alum Adam Riess '92 won the Nobel Prize in Physics ... , who is just 41 years old, shares the prize with fellow researchers Saul ... 77th MIT-connected winner of the Nobel Prize. My favorite quote from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  also a good core principle for life. Most of us want people in our lives ... anything but finite, as they continue throughout the course of one’s life ... is on who they are and what is right for them, rather than the prized

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  number won a prize. If I recall correctly, one of the people in the photo

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  Prize-Winning Composer John Harbison to attend. Oh well. Anyway ... recommendation for most problems at MIT. "I don't know what to do with my life

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  members of the MIT community have won the Nobel Prize, including seven

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  workshop this term taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz. It ... greater, just as you do. Which brings me back to my own life. I have ... bathroom keep asking me what I am going to do with my life, and I just don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  hitting your eyeballs right now. With the 2023 Nobel Prizes still fresh on ... this opportunity to talk about a few Nobel-prize-winning discoveries ... technologies with roots in the Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Physics. (Even if you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... **, Pulitzer Prize***, and other prestigious honors in the Infinite, at Stata ... , who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work with the genetics

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this means recognizing the winners of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts. So without further ado: *2010 SCHNITZER PRIZE WINNERS

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... -mail so quickly in my life. I scheduled an interview, and was working with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Minesweeper Monday: Episode 3 the wait is OVER

  

  magnum opus. Months passed, but the blogger community never forgets. And

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  life, Pan. We would have gone with Will and Kirjava, wouldn't we?" "Yes ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz “It's never the changes we want ... 's most famous work. Some of you might know that Díaz, a Pulitzer Prize

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and ... freshman year (I am a case in point). We have several Nobel Prize laureates ... you will meet for the rest of your life, you will get stereotyped when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the ... example to all and lived a beautiful, full life. These are some snippets ... curiosity, mentorship, gratitude, and living a good life. A lot of lessons I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  .001: Introduction to Geology 12.007: Geobiology: History of Life on Earth ... Evolution of Life[/annotation] 12.178: The Phylogenomic Planetary Record ... : Aerospace Biomedical and Life Support Engineering[/annotation] Course 17

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  like any other boot camp in real life, some of you will come in more fit ... Mystery Hunt during IAP; attend the Integration Bee and the Ig Nobel Prize

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  blog (are there any left?) probably know, is taught by Pulitzer Prize ... the basis that "It won the PULITZER PRIZE." I really hope that I am in ... class taught by a Pulitzer Prize-winner. I got a B+." Wow, I'm a jerk

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006