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  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  on the role of institutions and political power on economic outcomes ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college ... hundreds of people who had since became my classmates and my friends, and now

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  quality of your institution has been completely shattered. My child was so ... because of which they offered him/her a slot - that is nothing to scoff at ... NYC admitted students meeting was nothing short of amazing. A lot of it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential ... Institute of Technology's Research Science Institute, with an office in ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall to study computer science. Still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit ... of recommendation and proceed to your personal statement, where you ... strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less ... ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... brainstorming, doing tons of market research, forming ideas and designing a plan

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  hold the answer. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... technology at a bar in Cambridge where a group of singles were "speed ... of Technology. Sandy Pentland and colleagues analysed conversations

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  are a lot of core requirements that must be completed before a degree ... dozens and dozens of cool classes offered in Course 2, but most students ... . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  obligation, is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of ... energy-efficient technologies. John M. Deutch is an Institute Professor ... " new level of federal funding for clean energy research. The event came

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In an essay in ... my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts ... Studies professor Henry Jenkins for reasons why the popularity of Rain has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  : "May we offer you a drink of life's water, a water so replenishing and ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  ." - William Barton Rogers, Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology (1860 ... was instituted in 1948 upon the recommendation of an athletics committee ... considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  years of the Institvte will offer. One thing's for certain: wherever I go ... I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all ... every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  Program (SSEP) Women's Technology Program (WTP) Programs open to out-of ... further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the below are national/international, selective

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  each year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No previous ... students to explore the Institute through an engineering competition ... of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without ... that could be found in almost every corner of the institution. Although ... to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world ... leaders to have a deep understanding of science and technology in order to ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009