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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Wednesday, May ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  prize of a computer and a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida ... the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  you a fan of the Lord of the Rings universe? JRR Tolkien studied Old ... advantage of MIT's subject offerings any other way. ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

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

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  information released by the admissions office of almost any other university ... legendary, landmark effort. Ben's central use of blogs to speak honestly and ... feel the same way. With that said, let me give you a little tour of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the ... Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  scares me. I'm from Oregon, I'm applying next year, and that's not a lot of ... going to affect me at all when I apply? Also, I've taken a lot of ... and sciences, which is necessary to survive here (which does apply to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  science aspect of my degree altogether and dedicated myself to sociology ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  rankings by those sketchy university ranking websites. I guess a lot of ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... from University of Northeastern [Flyover State]-[Suburb] Campus or ... brains"]UROPs,[/annotation] [annotation note="Program Director and host of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I ... parks and lakes, and lots of friendly neighborhood cats that love

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  [annotation note="University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program ... One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note="because this is our first time actually being on campus"]second round of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... resistivity when pressure is applied to them, our hope is to be able to use that property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  psychology and political science. At MIT, she founded the MIT branch of Camp ... year, MIT students won three of the 32 scholarships. This brings MIT's count to 43 Rhodes Scholars. Below, find the "official" biographies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  conducted all sorts of applied science and engineering projects. Older ... University of Ghana’s Office of Research Innovation and Development (ORID ... Mr. Dogoe to reach out to a faculty member at the University of Ghana

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018