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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  narratives of public figures. The class is 17.309 Science, Technology, and Public Policy, arguably the most useful Political Science class offered at ... . Most of them are offered by several departments, and so I get a variety

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  University of Pennsylvania, which had recruited me for their creative writing ... don't offer the financial stability of an established company. But even ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's time to apply it to... How your screen displays lots of different colors ... light is rotated a bit, but not the full 90 degrees required for all of it ... light the full 90 degrees.) G: 50% (all of the green subpixels are letting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  University of California, Santa Barbara. Hammond is a professor of chemical ... of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Before assuming the presidency of MIT, she was Provost at Yale University

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  that story all over again. I thought getting my bachelor's degree would be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... that you tried your best and that is all you should expect of yourself

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... ). And of course, take their advice with a grain of salt and apply it to ... Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  cause us to take back our offer of admission, but slipping too much could ... .) ------------------------------------- KIM wrote: "Do you know the number of kenyans applying to mit this year ... .5/20 and 17/20 of average (18/20 or more for sciences). I'm not as passionate

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert ... here: the gila monster, its mottled orange and black skin warning of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... replace most English exclamations, expressions of feelings, and terms. And ... . ‘18, who also approved the title of this post) Yikes! This is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  'm going to bed. Good night! Not the same few colleges: The University of ... with a Bachelor's and Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies & Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  attending one of the most advanced universities in the world. I can’t tell you ... back to the very first week of college. One of my friends offered me a ... idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  application to computer science. Unlike Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess, poker is a game of ... university to offer this topic (in case you were wondering). Anyways, I’ve got ... beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar words of wisdom

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their ... founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity guided by Innovation, Networking, and Knowledge), is a national science

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... kind of letter instead of that portion of the application, just outlining ... of a school abroad. My question is: Will this letter put me at a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and ... . Though it's been a lot of work, I've been having a lot of fun. Selecting the class is one of the most rewarding moments of the admissions cycle

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  history of the universe. This would horrify undergrad Anna, who was afraid ... communicate their science with the public -- part of this was reminding ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  from the rest of the universe, surrounded by our own skin as people ... interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the universe, and yet is filled with bleak existential thoughts. if you've seen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today ... If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be ... community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010