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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  at MIT, a member of G@MIT, and a prospective political science / math ... , no less - also had a discussion with me. One of them even offered me a ... Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... University in South Korea, where it's possible to major in taekwondo like an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Jonathan Gruber received his Bachelor Of Science in Course 14 (Economics) from MIT ... one of the smallest economics programs of major universities, so that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  (Todai), the most prestigious university in Japan, through a year of ... ashamed of. I was deferred when I applied ED (not to MIT), and there was a ... Amazing Discovery of the Day: After nearly three semesters at MIT, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and ... is a science. Our professor attributes the success of viral phenomena ... IAP has been a time of very... well, different learning than I had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  thrive on challenge. Most of our admits have taken AP math and science ... universities out there (some of which actually admit kids with no AP's!). Many of ... enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  in a fresh layer of panic, bolted outside in 40-degree wind chill, ran ... Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That ... a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  then, but I can't take advantage of any of their offers now because they ... a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article ... fundamental limitation of social science, which is that it is situation ... guessing would predict. This sort of question is right in the social science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... ’ve found is a beautiful, bold act of vulnerability. It takes courage to apply ... throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change?

  . Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is MIT's response ... heart of much of the Program’s work lies MIT’s Integrated Global System Model (IGSM), a linked set of computer models designed to simulate the
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  look forward to. This September, I’ll be beginning a Masters of Science ... -way ticket home. There was a semblance of relief, knowing that years of toiling ... beginning of the rest of my life. But, in reality, there was none of that, as

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  about physical principles and how other people have applied them. A ... of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering students will be equipped to handle upper level classes. But instead of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  Development). Each student could apply to a maximum of three externships. One of ... spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or ... travel abroad (with your expenses paid through various MISTI programs, of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  all about two things: demonstrating the fundamental properties of ... “classical” (non-quantum) limits. Most of the experiments in 6.2410 use quantum optics – think lasers, mirrors, and whatnot. Except instead of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  one of many things. I’m thinking maybe an alligator with rollerblades ... person, however, would recognize the tell-tale signs of a bad joke and wait ... , “Grass. I lied about the wheels. Ha!” It’s the epitome of the anti

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013