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• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  foreign. Never seen it. No idea what anyone's been talking about. With that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  ’t hear back within a few days, then you should follow up with the EC office

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  the answer. An interesting podcast interview with Richard Schmalensee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  space is my neighborhood, On July 16, 1969, Apollo left earth with one

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought I'd say hi. We began RA selection on Friday morning, with the official kickoff meeting. By 1PM the committee was looking at its first applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  gorgeous formula sheet. Instead, I have been struggling with my inner

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  Commencement speakers, with a link to their speech: 2004, Elias Zerhouni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  Srivastava take the lottery for millions, like the MIT Blackjack Team took Las Vegas for millions? "I remember thinking, I'm gonna be rich! I'm gonna ... Lottery and Gaming Corporation. Srivastava thought its top officials might

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to ... requirement or disciplinary focus. The list for fall 2017 includes ... suit your skills. All but ELS provide subjects for complete beginners

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the ... up for some reason. I'll look into this when I'm back in the office ... can do, so try to have some fun in these next few weeks. Hang in there

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  , have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy ... here for anything in the world.Favorite things about Boston: The Charles ... anywhere and there's so much stuff to do for college kids. I love that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  weekend. I'm seeing the first signs of spring. What better way to welcome

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  ) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for 21A.260, on cross ... about biomedical ethics. It wasn't a bad concentration, but it's tough for ... all the chairs in the microscope room are too short for me to see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  Well folks, the time has come. Note that the pic up top has changed to reflect the clean-shaven face, as promised (sorry mootmom, but a pact is a pact). :-) Enjoy these other pics from the day's festivities

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of ... basis for my sorority-bashing. Seriously though, I was basing my opinion ... wasn't entirely convinced of that. I needed to see this for myself. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings ... real homecomings for me. In the few moments that I wasn't working, I was ... are reading, thanks for all the hospitality and to my folks who took

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating ... place where top minds from across the world come together to learn and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  QWERTY keyboard was created with two goals in mind: a) minimize the number ... studies with improved layouts, such as the Dvorak keyboard, showed that the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster. Waste hours for fun, while still knowing that after, one still has just as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017