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  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I ... were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive ... January -- the intermediate period between winter break and the spring semester -- numerous for-credit classes are on offer. The full first semester

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Watsonville. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is rated the #3 family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted ... could tune in. Below is the email from President Reif describing the event. Alert readers may notice that one of the speakers is former

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  my body, rising like flood waters. What if it's not the same? What if ... I was going to treat this differently. How this was not the same. I ... about you, since I guess I'm one of the few people that actually is in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  at the moment. But seriously, the breadth is absolutely astonishing ... , the class is about making games using a framework called Love. One of the things that isn't suggested is that it's also an intro to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research. As is typical of MIT, the work is ... of MIT's Center for Cancer Research is the principal investigator on a ... program, is the principal investigator on a grant of the same magnitude that

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

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative ... expression, "the cure for cancer is research" throughout the corridors at MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  the mascot is the beaver, “nature’s engineer.” I know the social Baker ... Boston side of the river, everyone is bound together by a love, or at the ... -based article short but sweet. Enough with the excuses, onto the introduction! My

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  WIth CPW 2012 just a few days away, the whole school is getting ready to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... and math levels are encouraged to participate. This year the date is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  the interview, you should know that Lou Dobbs is a television ... A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  two minutes away from my dorm! Chomsky is quite the prominent figure. He is known as the "father of modern linguistics" and the "world's top public intellectual." Chomsky is also one of the most cited scholars

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  distance. However, the one tradition that my family does have is our annual ... holiday is cluttered with things I said I'd do during the semester and didn ... me that the world is a beautiful place. It's easy to forget that when

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  this summer is tackling. Tulip, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab Lumin ... everyday, which is definitely preferable to a long walk or commute. From the ... the company is definitely one that reminds me of my friends and classes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  first time. Above is a short demo of me using the Meta 2. On the computer ... organizer of AR in Action is John Werner, the former Head of Innovation and ... Media Lab's Emerging Worlds, Ideas in Action, and is the curator of TEDx

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  follows the same schedule, here is a look back on last Friday. 8:37 - My alarm goes off. Why is the time so oddly specific? Well, truth be told, I ... had the pre-reqs for it from last semester, so I signed up! It is

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no ... Chris M. scooped me, but I just couldn't let a visit from the MV-22

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  Episode 5 (The Empire Strikes Back?) of MIT's experimental podcast ZigZag is now available, including stories about the 2.007 robotics ... can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... Celestrium (which is a non-precious metal that's really durable.) The gold ring ... name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... ..." Wait no longer! Here are this year's exciting numbers. The MIT ... admitted 1495 of those students, making this the most selective year ever in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005