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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I`m not back there yet (Boston next Monday!), I have trouble writing about it! So I`ll share…

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

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  In Matt’s latest post he says that MyMIT will be up August 19. This is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading in. This…

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  If you are at all following the news, you’ll know that the US Congress just raised the debt ceiling, after a protracted deeply partisan debate. Just like every political debate,…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh cruel, cursed fate! Blerg!

  

  [Apologies to Wendy Macnaughton and Christoph Niemann for doing injustice to their art form.]

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that space is big. I couldn’t wait to start over – to create an entirely new lifestyle,…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  Once, a man whom we can only assume must have been truly desperate responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement, “Call for a good…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  The MIT Freshman Application will open on August 19th. Our application deadlines for this year remain unchanged: November 1 for Early Action (EA), and January 1 for Regular Action (RA).…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out – and my mentor was…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

    Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was years ago I received my temporary housing…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Before I say what I have to say about video, remember: Blogger applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I have…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Last night, MIT Aero/Astro professor Missy Cummings was the guest on The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy’s first female fighter pilots. She flew the F/A-18…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time…

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. When we return…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot about the InternshipPlus requirement, but never thought much about it since it was a thing…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be your first experience test-driving real life. I say test-driving because you get to pretend to be…

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave right now. Not…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged about last week no longer exist. Yay, happy dance: (Devin ’13 showed me this video a while back…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that we updated our admissions statistics and freshman class profile pages to the newest data from this…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

    Last week, MISTI-China interns in Beijing welcomed Malgorzata Hedderick (Associate Dean of MIT Undergraduate Education), Melanie Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career Development) and Sean…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I’d say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You’ve got tons of things to do, as well as even more things that you…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011