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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This ... to the public understanding of science and technology. It is also

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  undergraduate degree anymore. Now, if you want to major in say, computer science ... 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

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

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Action — 29,282 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2029. As of ... students have until May 1 to decide whether or not to accept our offer of ... ’s mission to use science, technology, and other areas of scholarship to work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  organization offered a snapshot of their own, unique chapters below. For those ... , Incorporated was founded on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY by ... , 1989 and encompasses the campuses of MIT, Harvard University, and Tufts

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year ... colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other non-traditional pathways. You should choose an institution that will offer rigorous academic
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on-line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  . Since graduation, I’ve been pursuing the slow boat of academic science — I ... at Santa Clara University. Most of the reason I'm abandoning the east ... Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a ... and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences), then by major (Course 1 ... am: Ah, the bond of the brass rat: At 9:45ish, we began to leave

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  .stackexchange.com, StackExchange offered me an applied math internship in New York which I've decided to take instead. Applied math and New York are both out of my ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that ... at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 ... to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we promise to serve you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... 's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few ... have imagined they had an interest in the universe, or in science at all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  (except Chemistry and Computer Science) will generally give you 9 units of ... ; Theatre Building at California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Camphor ... : October 6, 6:00pm; California State University Chancellor's Office, 401

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  broad discussion of the whole universe.  Professor Flowers’ model of ... provide models of the human brain, but it takes a human to apply facts about ... exploration of how humans think, and how we can apply truth and knowledge to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... Cambridge ones, will have done as part of their undergraduate degree, or one ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  , microstructure of stock exchanges and initial public offerings. Her current ... and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ... Management Science and for the journal of Naval Logistics Research, an Area

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  experience called A Piece of the Universe! Another thing I did, partly in ... were really no repercussions for failure. I ended up applying many of the ... For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  numerically by course (in the School of Science, it went 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 18 ... a late major in the School of Science. On the bright side, I didn ... Summertime, and the livin' is easy... and there are tons of awesome

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science ... University, who nevertheless said he had yet to read a profile of a young

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Chocolate Science has come to the rescue! The Lab offers free hot chocolate in ... heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009