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  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Four ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  Institutional Research (IR), erroneously reported that MIT Admissions offered a ... admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  is new technology, if we want an example of what's truly possible we should turn to some kind of Institute of Technology..... MIT-1996 ... technology, two colors and a tiny gif of a man on a ladder. Well one example

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... - and much like their toilet, living in Tokyo offers different type of ... use by MISTI - MIT Science and Technology Initiative, an amazing program

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  -lecture on "What MUJI and Design Can Offer the World of the Future". They ... watched the second presidential debate. How do I make the most out of MIT ...  MacArthur 'Genius' Grant winner - held a reading of his new book, This is How You Lose

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" around the rim, as well as illustrating ... outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  the Broad Institute, Co-Chair of Obama's President's Council on Science ... tremendous excitement about our ignorance, the wonderful potential of ignorance ... root of experiment. It is processed ignorance, carefully constructed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such, here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... House Lie to Me Bones Men of a Certain Age The Game Meet the Browns Numb3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the ... elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005, and in 2006 he received the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  this lecture, he would retreat to the Broad Institute (part of MIT) and ... , kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied ... different suite) every year so far. Not only have I painted all of these rooms, but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M ... Electives in Science and Technology; you must choose 2 from a list of 47 ... three pieces of advice. 1. Relax. 2. Submit your application well in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  fantastic folks at the Davidson Institute and the new Davidson Academy. The Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  't know any seniors. This year, however, I knew tons of seniors, so there were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The ... year out of MIT: Another $10. Second year:$10 + $10 = $20. Third year

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  -tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the ... suggest. For example, at top-tier institutions only about 15 percent of ... Perhaps you have noticed my lack of blogging lately, unfortunately I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013. Sean was a beloved campus police officer, a member of the MIT Outing Club, and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally ... .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010