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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  , so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of ... trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in the freight industry. It's all new to me, coming from the passenger side

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife ... length, lets just say I've never been so happy to hear the words Caesarean ... ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New York City. While walking around the downtown area, my roommate took me to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of things every day: School. Drop Date, the last date undergraduates are ... my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  I've had some great conversations over the past few weeks with folks in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is ... idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... the recruitment, not the travel. I'm looking forward to the school visits and the big regional info sessions. I'm not looking forward to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after ... remedy for graduate school applications. So I had known about the NIH ... what I spent my high school summers mostly doing. So at the end of my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs yesterday in my favorite apron (I made the meatballs, and Adam made the ... all sides. It's difficult to brown the meatballs evenly in the skillet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... speak full sentences in the language now. I promised her she'll speak the language by the time I graduate) I'm still deciding whether or not to double

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... recently was awarded the John Bates Clark medal. As Matt's blog discussed, this year, MIT Professor Daron Acemoglu won the Clark medal. The MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  blog topics today. Kevin posted the New York Times article on MIT President Susan Hockfield, and Daniel posted the National Public Radio piece on the Time Traveler Convention. Anyway, check both of those out. Last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It seems that many of the admitted students already have an idea of what ... extremely varied too. I was wondering if the core curriculum limits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  atm. exploring the Cambridge/Boston area by foot — something i never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour bakery called Bova's in the [annotation note="Boston's Little Italy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  If you are under the age of 25 (and maybe also if you are over it ... /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... super fun and hilarious -- and at the very least, you have to admit that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  happened very quickly. I first heard about the program during the summer from ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... in my family we are cheap af. It is summertime in Denver. The ever

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Tuesday before CPW, caught my attention in particular. In it, Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior once again persuades herself that MIT is the best place ... stayed up until midnight yesterday to review the MIT CPW (Campus Preview

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... mid-sentence when the lights flickered and went off. The hundred+ physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012