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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  undergraduate science majors and more than a third of the engineering students are ... equal representation of women in science. When I casually mention to ... the National Academy of Sciences reported in September. And at each step

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which ... other. Students do not apply directly to the university, but rather to ... semester of MIT. I offer the analogy that MIT semesters give large pillars of

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  educational press has been buzzing about the launch of Minerva University ... (former head of the New School), and Pat Harker (president of the University ... the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  . Sure enough... Eng holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rhode ... biomimetics at the University of Bath in England and has collaborated with MIT ... coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  , dangling with flags from all of District 7’s many universities and colleges ... to take me up on the offer of an MIT tour. A week later, Josh Shiode e ... most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  annihilation, in the basements of applied-science-based campus fraternal ... Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ,312 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2023. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,410 students. The Class of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  College of New York. Just curious wrote, "This has probably already been ... Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) next month. I'll be around the public ... Globe (free registration required) which gives a good overview of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Utah are MIT ECs (!). I ... science. What can I do to show my stuff?" Well, there are a number of things ... learn about what people in the field of computer science are researching

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  the University of Cambridge for a change of pace. Now that I'm back ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... lot about it, too. I'm interested in physics, cognitive science and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip ... (mirar) with different verbs. I can't think of an appropriate transitive

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... familiar, it's probably because you've seen the work of his distant relative

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she ... this morning and land later in the day in Cambridge, Mass. - the home of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  STEM (and non-STEM) classes and teachers. I read a lot of popular science ... semester of sophomore year. at the time, computer science seemed like the ... lighting was way better from this side)[/caption] one of the hazards of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  of science We hold as our ultimate mission to understand the mysteries ... them with med school-related decisions. 82% of MIT undergrads who applied ... umbrella when Adam and I go Christmas shopping tonight. And if the idea of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  and ponder the distance to the next star and the age of the universe ... previous generations no longer apply. And the revolutions often grow out of ... Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  apply to law schools straight out of undergrad each year. Is it difficult ... they want to study engineering, while other universities offer wider ... dismiss the quality of our humanities and social science programs. But there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  into the teeth of the Great Recession, I applied to 63 jobs that spring ... -Hazen who got a 35 on her ACT but was afraid of applying to a school so far ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  of you applying this cycle, good luck! If you have any questions about ... current and alumni bloggers in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014