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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  full of clothes suited for a New York summer), when I got a phone call ... of industries with all kinds of technology. Suddenly, I was in a ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  New York at 11:00 AM. Of course, the Fung Wah Bus Company hurriedly ... hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There ... New York, because it was 58 degrees when I left but started snowing 12

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  surprise you. The core technology of impressive robots like those from Boston ... degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on ... importance of a particular task or technology, I’m more convinced I’m in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, Khademhosseini has recently been named one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Young Innovators of 2007 for his inventive tissue

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  first semester of my master's degree here. GPA isn't that important for my ... have secured a full-time offer for 2024 in the specific type of role I ... Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... , and could only admit ~1600 students. But most of the students to whom we were unable to offer admission were also really great students and people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  , like: What are the existing forms of CBL? How do CBL institutions define ... in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine ... 've taken to meet the req's! Legend GIR = General Institute Requirements ... Science and Technology CI-H = Communication Intensive in HASS CI

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  Program (SSEP)Women's Technology Program (WTP) Programs open to out-of ... MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming non-MIT deadlines Other forthcoming deadlines.

  

  forget everything that's going on, and sometimes you're not even aware of ... , I should make the juniors (and, for some of these programs, other students) out there aware of the deadlines for a subset of recommended summer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  admitted to the Class of 2011. If there's one in your area, you should check ... happen later. See your MyMIT portal for a list of locations and times for all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but she knew her family couldn't afford it ... engineering and math. Flores will enter the Massachusetts Institute of ... ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  with a large group of people. After a certain degree of collective sleep ... yours, especially if you spend them in riveted perusal of my fascinating blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some ... issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  - Intro to Comparative Media Studies. Offers an overview of the social ... word, and digital technologies. Topics include the nature and function of ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the greatest, most profound things ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my ... I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  its so-called "peer institutions," has a high rate of low income ... chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I ... /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  of respect by our academic peer institutions - magical. Dana Mead ... Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005