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  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  . Only a day at one of the coolest institutions in the world, with your ... chase. On April 30th, from 11am – 4pm, MIT will be offering 160 different FREE activities as part of its day long Open House (also the kick

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel like a middle-age technology reporter. It's like Fight Club, or being a hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  other technology-based modes of support, including appointment and ... Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information ... hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... think about education in the time of technological growth. Many of them

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  ="MIT offers a special opportunity for students to acquire a masters degree in ... ="General Institute Requirements AKA MIT's version of geneds."]GIRs.[/annotation] The ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  of Technology have developed a finder that can survey hundreds of ... are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 33,240 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2025. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  2024. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission ... . Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  ceremony. How did this all start?The history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham ... graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  offers opportunities for students to live out MIT's motto of "Mens et Manus ... three of us took in the first week of IAP. Joe, who is the Chairman of ... semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  , technology, engineering and science is happening in all parts of the country ... MISTI is pleased to announce the launch of its eleventh country program, MIT-Chile. With generous support from the Chilean Ministry of

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my ... also offers a more abstract approach of evaluating history through ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard) comes this story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions ... Pushiness of Parents, and Other Admissions Tales By ALVIN P. SANOFF While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  At MIT, there are two weeks between the last day of finals and commencement. The second of those two weeks is called Senior Week: the class council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... up your psets, perhaps)? You may also have heard of Gleevec, a ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  of (checks watch) right now, we have offered admission to 1 ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now ... you click View Update.  This year — inclusive of both Early and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 33,796 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2026. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022