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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  a few weeks ago, and asked us to apply some of the concepts we learned ... last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a ... should give me a well-rounded introduction to engineering leadership.

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to ... Gorbunov, co-founder at Aikicrypt, a new way to encrypt cloud data. PhD in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT ... wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a ... I will be under a rock until further notice, I have taken the time to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much ... 'm doing this semester is here - it's a guide to nice places to work on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  dorm exec is to a single dorm. Every other week, we have General Body ... drop right now and I knew I had to drop something to make space for the ... as a tool for topology, it is interesting to look deeper into the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... through lecture halls’ doors Proclaiming that they have a message of love to ... why You mean so much to me. Poor soul, poor soul You’re often scorned

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  all the necessary supplies to make a scrumptious root bear float. The ... who tried to convince me to go to a public university, I was definitely ... (words of wisdom). To those who have heard rumors of a clandestine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  synonymous with “we needed a science word to make our thing sound more ... this opportunity to talk about a few Nobel-prize-winning discoveries ... awarded to an MIT professor just a few days after I learned how quantum dots

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  In a recent post, I wrote, "Our yield was even higher than we ... (though preliminarily there are a few numbers I'm very excited about...)." This left a few people quite intrigued. For example, Laura commented

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  the situation? I can't emphasize this enough: make sure to review ...     tl;dr: Click here to apply to MIT.   ... -250 words each, depending on the question):  We know you lead a busy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  easy to forget after a while. So, try to plan your schedule right. Make ... amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one ... semester of your freshman year. It's a lot of memorization but it's great to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  aluminum nitride (typically used as an insulator) as a semiconductor to make ... output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to ... decided to give it a shot this year. Unfortunately, I severely

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  accidentally reviewed a book someone sent him. The book was about porn - and to ... ...er...girl): It's always dangerous, non-productive or you get lied to when you ask a writer about themes. As a writer you desperately try to write things very

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  , John (a Course 20 professor) and Ellen, convinced me to stay. I gave ... early 2014, a staff member, comparing MIT to smaller liberal arts colleges ... school was a time to reckon with the qualities I once lionized. I now

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  trying to convince others not to make the same mistake: Burton Conner IS ... request a transfer to EC? I even trudged across Mass Ave in a torrential downpour to ask the poor, exhausted deskworker for a tour. I asked a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one ... urges to blog every time I see a computer...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly ... in EA. That's a small number, but to be honest so is the number of RA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  makes me so incredibly sad to know that in just a little under two months ... World where each area of the park is a different country to showcase that ... relationships was a bit skewed and I thought my uncle in close proximity to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  scorching hot, and a few of us even pulled out our umbrellas to shield ... to a thrilling jazz concert performed by our own FJE and a local jazz ... ’ve guessed. And the cherry on top? For dinner, we went to a restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  to pop up with surprising regularity. A lot of my newly made African ... referred to African-Americans right? And I was African. Was there a ... turn around to see a heavyset, middle-aged white man racing toward me. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016