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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  . How did this all start? The history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen ... MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to President Richard Maclaurin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  ?The history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back ... 1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to ... Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  -tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the ... suggest. For example, at top-tier institutions only about 15 percent of ... held at Columbia University and the City University of New York graduate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  of Technology have developed a finder that can survey hundreds of ... are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority ... , engineering, and entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI ... , the sciences, and engineering. The Women's Technology Program (WTP) is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... exploring new technologies toward the goal of innovating teaching and learning ... . Students then apply what they learned in the hopes of actual institutional

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  May I include supplementary materials with my application?

  mail materials to MIT, please use this address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Undergraduate Admissions 77 Massachusetts
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Human Genome Research Institute? Thanks a lot for your help." This is an ... answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the ... active suspension technology and went on to receive offers from major car ... . That's a lot of degrees between the two of them, and these guys know what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes, we hand all the real ones out, and read all the names of everyone ... 7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT. They were admitted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  , from this one pizza shop in New York Dr. Langer was particularly fond of ... distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... , highligthing the hopes, differences, and amazing similarities of the Technology ... ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program to get an MD-PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year ... problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane ... Sasisekharan, a professor of Biological Engineering, and did his senior thesis

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... , so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of ... addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  Technology-enhanced education is changing the lives of millions ... Surgical Sciences Masters degree? Now you get it online from one of the best ... Learn offers courses based on the idea of learning through conversations. Over 3

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  increase the R&D funding of alternative energy technologies, with a sharp ... Petroleum Institute, a majority of US voters would prefer to rely on oil ... the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel like a middle-age technology reporter. It's like Fight Club, or being a hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011