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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  , numbers and one-upmanship equivalent of the "Not necessarily being the ... doctor and are thinking of coming to MIT first, you're not setting yourself ... sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  exception.  The alumni told stories of the wondrous pranks and adventures they ... on and on about stories of the origin of many of the most famous hacks ... past residents of Tetazoo! And there was so much food! The alumni helped

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim ... brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members ... the basic premise of the characters, the card-counting method, and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  .      Ellen Kullman, the first woman CEO and current CEO of DuPont, was ... he drew on a piece of a paper: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number ... Kullman told the Class of 2014 to use the elements of "heat, light, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... who built the Apollo Guidance Computer and Buzz Aldrin ScD '63 himself (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  , and yet it's such a foundational technique in the field of genetics ... in the field onto whole RNA sequencing as a way of getting a fuller ... points. Definition is a big and important part of science. The human

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  individual blades of grass and refracting the morning light, ephemeral steam ... lights up offensively bright shades of neon blue and red, and the blaring ... lot, and talk in the dark. Many of the people from my childhood have

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... should you expect? First, the admissions officer and the local Educational ... Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire and Belgian Congo). [source: MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and ... . When we got there, the first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of ... to the Museum of Science, and all we had to do was to give her our name

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  the entire cast was also in attendance. (Oh, and one of the high school ... .” – WGBH website Since one of the hosts of the show, Nate Ball, is an MIT student and this is National Engineering Week, there was a sneak preview of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas ... classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... because of cyclical reinforcing feelings that math became uninteresting and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because of the restriction on serving open food at club events, I've eaten an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  of 7 laps in 4 minutes (tying with the best score), and we were only a ... out of power midair and came in for a glider landing--except the wind ... the end of the day, however, score is divided by aircraft weight--and as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  of them and their behavior. The basic conceptual units of neoclassical ... remarkably well until they don’t. The reality of the world is chaos, and ... reasoned citizen, and start to understand the implications of economic events

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  folder is complete -- all of the documents have arrive, been entered, and ... take the folder and cover sheet and make sure that all of the filing has ... complete applications, and we won't start admitting anyone until all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  . You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you ... . You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who ... ." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  and then took the Green Line back to tEp. Throughout the first half of ... : there’s a balance between the familiar and the unknown The first time I went to the end of a T line was when some of my podmates and I went out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  got tired and decided to take two breaks each climb – first on the 7th ... histogram, shown below.In the end, teams Beast and Slugfest battled for first ... I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  a bran flake when I saw that the first sentence of the description was ... this class, and that there was a camera filming me with the goal of ... workout", and 2) If I can get the hang of this, I will look AWESOME at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  the awesome company they are, decided to pay all of the interns and ... Boston Pops concert the night before the 4th and I figured the 3rd of July ... beautiful prose and various other forms of media. I left the dorm at 5:30 PM

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008