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• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  proves that even 100 million years ago, the beaver was dominating the area ... happened, and also because Sam's Mom made fun of me when I didn't know Tony Randall died until I read the special year-end retrospective issue of People

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... to 1.5 million things per day. Which is why this entry is short. Sanja ... background of some of the pictures I posted) and the waterpark are jointly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks ... some of the nation's most successful magnet schools -- but I am glad that the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to ... persistent and preventable problem of access to clean drinking water. They hope ... link to find out more! These are the children of the town of Jazmín, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy ... open space signifies an abundance of opportunities. The Charles River: My newest source of vitality and inspiration Seen from the MIT Sailing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... up your psets, perhaps)? You may also have heard of Gleevec, a ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• 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 ... ’s “home of free learning,” which has hosted 35 million visitors ... the launch of the digital courses, there have been 2.2 million sign ups

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of ... who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that ... graduate school, and there are a million questions running through my head, but I got hit by a jolt of admissions reality just now. 1. The deadline

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... -foot building of limestone and glass, the largest research building on campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  " come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical ... million" Jerry Hausman (Economics) Econometrics / Hausman test  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  quality of life for millions with compromised immune systems, including ... From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  five-year, $12.6 million grant which will be shared by a group of 13 ... school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  technology into the hands of millions of the world's poorest children. This ... (and Ben and Nance) been? Reading applications. Lots and lots of ... 'm really enjoying this year's applications; I know that we have a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  anyone capable of planting machines in the earth a million years prior to ... I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  million more than the entire population of Sweden!"]14 million people ... city for these 2.5 months of summer, to be one of the 14 million going ... my pleasure to welcome you to Japan: the country of neon-lit karaoke

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  $71 million in 2007, versus $77 million donated in 2006 by alumni of ... admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  of having to finish a million projects for a million different research ... I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006