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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Whitehead Institute, Mike works under the auspices of Prof. Harvey Lodish and ... of free time thinking about possible experiments and troubleshooting ... on biology-related projects at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was psetting at Next House during spring semester of freshman year when Will ... this video of Will (CubanCrescendo!) singing JJ Lin’s “我很想爱她”, recorded

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  Twitch laid off 20% of its staff, I accepted UW’s offer. A few months later ... 'm crossing my fingers that I'll be able to make it to the end of my degree with ... job??? The latter of which actively have a hard deadline??? But then

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... sets instead of papers). There is often a significant amount of assigned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... to say no one would hire me, because by August I had two job offers ... was, me and my degrees, pouring coffee for the elderly and [annotation

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  been taught, even despite taking all of my school's offered physics and ... . Well,I am a freshman studying at DUT (Dalian University of Technology ... ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  have Star Wars technology, medeival institutions, and paleolithic ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  -income households through development of low-cost technologies. It is extremely common ... of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , attended the dinner and offered words of introduction. He has been a member of the Institute for 29 years and has held a number of different ... community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about ... Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  proof of concept of technology; a "looks like" prototype should give a ... detect front and back foot taps with a fair degree of accuracy.  But you ... interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  place with a new language. It's difficult. I'm envious of those ... fraction. And our institute often works with foreign research institutes. I'm reading a thesis of a friend; he could have written in English

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  spread additional awareness of what MIT offers to help people on this day ... on Her Arms  - National Institute of Mental Health - National Suicide ... Garment District and got $10 rainboots, and dug through piles of discarded

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... have heard of some of his books: Einstein’s Dreams (1993), Good Benito

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Director of Collections & Curator, Science & Technology and the senior editor of MIT News at MIT Technology Review, respectively). We ... tying it back to the origins of MIT becoming synonymous with technological

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  interested in engineering, Berea offers a 3-2 dual-degree engineering program ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006