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• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  RISE (Roots In Science and Engineering) and is an example of how ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be precise - by receiving a very selective award from Google (of equal monetary

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each ... OOOoo! 20.320 Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems The boring

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... plan. Or improvise. After end of IAP rolled around, I was one of those ... excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I ... , Paul Happily, it turns out that I have a lot of friends who like to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the ... there’s a bunch of IAP offerings on programming. The options include ... are course 6! I have got to taste some of this, the computer science

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... form), and if you are applying for the Match, check off that you are applying Early Action. You do not need to complete the Part 2 (essays

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  totally made my day. Engineers rock. Of course, Wallace is failing MechE and then cheated, like an idiot! So of course he got caught, and I’m supremely disappointed in his lack of judgment. Still. Mechanical engineering

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  well at applying knowledge.  Effective use of knowledge means quickly ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better ... the context of science/engineering, I think creativity on a daily basis

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  vague memories of him making and offering me cookies but I am rude and I ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... . Cory is reading a book (I think it was One Hundred Years of Solitude). I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  technicality. School 1 = Engineering, 58% of students. School 2 = Science. School ... ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  jesus christ, MIT alum friends of mine are talking to me about applying ... we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any ... applications from people who have no business applying to MIT to liven up

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I love to see and hear about all the cool things offered to students or ... asked by prospective students. What kinds of clubs do we have?  Usually

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  of activities: Applied Math Lab Tours, Tie Dye at McCormick, the MIT ... of visiting the Museum of Science for the first time, and going trick ... at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... of awesome Boston-area college students. Considering that a lot of other universities aren’t necessarily in cities or around many other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023