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• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  Registration Day for MIT students (the official start of the new academic year) I ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are ... 's always open. I might even have cookies or pie. Those of you who want to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... /principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades
• 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 / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and ... (who have the best record in baseball right now), the University of ... Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at Iberdrola in Spain; conduct experimental investigations of rheological substances at RWTH Aachen University in Germany; and develop engineering

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  [email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to ... All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  the Special Olympics with Googlers at the University of Southern ... With several of the core General Institute Requirements out of the way, sophomore year was really the dawn of my computer science life at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns ... for residents of certain countries. This past weekend, a group of universities including MIT filed an amicus brief in federal court opposing the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about another new class called 21H.000 History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics. It meets every Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  "lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... Universities for International ISEF Participants Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4-5pm ... 's international students, we will discuss admission to U.S. universities, providing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our ... . Universal Grammar by Norvin Richards, Professor of Linguistics What does ... Are you interested in any of: making governments work better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  semester of a university college course so if anyone knows a way I can get ... crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him ... ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011