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  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to ... sciences department in between. But course 17 (Political Science), though

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had never heard of an international science olympiad. My high school wasn ... professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently ... better. A lot of emphasis in choosing colleges goes towards student life

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying ... ’s applying to the entire U.S. News & World Report Top 20 universities ... right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... 'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  Universe” and soon it’s like, “Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it ... finish, but don't get too embedded in your bubble universe [of college apps ... Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  't Pepsi. MIT's a university, so maybe the concept of a graphic identity for a university is something that's relatively recent. As part of the ... of universities, MIT's 2003 logo doesn't seem so recent anymore. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Center See a show at the Museum of Science Ice skate on Frog Pond Go ... , as you can probably imagine), running around the Museum of Science ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience ... interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  won a prize from the National Academy of Sciences. I could go on. But ... Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a logical degree system)! Days like this make me glad for two things: 1) my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  some things. Josh is majoring in computer science at the University of ... . 450 degrees is also okay. Add a generous amount of salt and pepper and ... degrees Fahrenheit. Pour about a cup of olive oil into a large bowl. Add a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  attended high schools that offered dozens of these courses, and, yes, some of ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It's been really fun so far, exploring all of Tokyo's neighborhoods - peering

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  opportunity for learning. This does not apply to everybody, of course, I'm just ... 've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  ) Explores the role of government in the economy, applying tools of basic ... Toward the Scientific Revolution The emergence of Western science: the ... semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  necessarily offering clarification or description of any kind. Like a medieval ... of the expanding universe is revealed through cataloging Right: to the ... documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... , Illinois, the DC area, Florida, and more. Complete list of MIT Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  started getting interview invites from a handful of the places I applied to ... handed me a degree progress sheet that showed I was four electives short of ... stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... glassblowing, we used glass frit – tiny shards of glass – to apply the colour ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022