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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Silicon Valley and beyond. The MIT students (or should I say former MIT students?) who won the fellowship are Laura Deming and Jeffrey Lim. Deming was one of only two women to win (and the only American woman); the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  , making them more interesting and adaptable. Can't the same be true of life ... job and being out of the loop for a few years can really reduce your ... "the best." There are many ways to raise a "good" kid and being a stay

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their ... a perspective on the relationship between biology, bioengineering, and ... such as social security, the public debt, and international economic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  and comments. Changed the URL to 3-107.com, which is a lot easier to ... and requests, including: Migrated the whole site to a Movable Type ... # of the office suite I share with Matt and a few other folks, directly

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  the line, and you learn quickly to take it in stride, get back on and ... 13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT ... noobs like me, every time he sets up the line), and I can now almost make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  and I got summer started off on the right foot with a good ol' barbecue. The menu included: burgers, corn on the cob, and WATERMELON! We grilled ... So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  MIT. And, it's nice to think that in the future, I can look back on this ... out at the sea of faces and realized what a magical job it is to be the ... inconvenience passing between Stata and the Bio Building (I ate lunch on the lawn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  was last night, and it might be the strangest and most fun thing I ... raining dandruff?” And then I saw the sheets of snow on the ground, the ... how certain I was that I would dive head-on into the waiting classes and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  from the rather shaky window frames and maul someone on the sidewalk ... the team manager and last primary on-call. My project touched only a ... in production (!!). Being on-call seemed like the equivalent of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  you don’t like MIT… I think you’re on the wrong page. Maybe you ... completely on basketball, and have extra time to do all of the things I put off ... pretty and festive, and all of the trees on Newbury St. and Commonwealth

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the ... other interns at the Houston R&D Center here in Texas, and we all get ... and helpful, and some employees have even invited us to hang out on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  we updated our admissions statistics and freshman class profile pages ... Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women ... was offered $100,000 to start her own company based on her research...and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  on the project. When a newspaper calls me up and asks for comments, I ... and offer suggestions on how such efforts may benefit the long ... attention to the memes people make of him, so I encourage you to go out and be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... personalities and/or lecturing skills, you'll hopefully be happy to know that the ... distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  school juniors can consider. All of the below are national/international ... emphasizes advanced theory and research in mathematics, the sciences, and ... engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects. There are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... on the waitlist will not be admitted. I hope that you will have another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  worked in the Human Resources department and soon realized I wanted to be ... providing me with advice and perspective on their experiences. At the end of ... experience the work-life and culture of a different country. I will be living

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  the original metaphor, I might be covered in milk now and out of breath ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the grand total of my high school knowledge is quickly being surpassed. But

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  think it’s the other way around) and she was telling me she would be ... of belonging, and community. I had already found the perfect coffee ... myself, “Well that’s something, ain’t it?” I quickly called my parents and

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012