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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  ! ------------------------ 1. Public Service Center (PSC) Fellowships -- the PSC aims "to enrich ... interest to the PSC and its donors, so students who apply for these ... Fellowship -- you would "need to identify a community or community organization

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing ... -and-white television screen bolted to the wall.) POLK: (covers the mouthpiece; jerks ... turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... Plano West Senior High seniors will have the chance to make a difference ... the Dallas-Fort Worth area boasts as many students scheduled to attend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... just sitting there, trying to ignore the incessant Beach Boys music they ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... moonlights as a rockstar. And now to our regularly scheduled program ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... MIT student. I think the reason this question comes to mind are ... began taking steps to remedy the situation. 2. The Larry Summers thing. 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... recent trip has brought me to the San Francisco bay area to interview at UC

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to ... there's tremendous economic pressure to suck you away from what is perhaps ... if you go into science, especially as a woman. You have to worry about

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... since the beginning of the summer. I've done a lot of assays to explore ... to sell my organs piece by piece on the global black market, I'm pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  schools who email with the question: "What now? I don't know what to do." My ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will ... hearts go out to those students and their families who have been affected

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... a speed-dater would agree to a real date. It was a good sign, Madan ... talk. And I'm not the only one. This seems to be one of the key rules to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  John Cloutier are supposed to meet with MIT President Susan Hockfield to discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment ... about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just kind of relax," said Martha Merrill, dean of admission and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  students passed away. James E. Roberts Sr. was known as "Big Jimmy" to ... Jimmy memories. Two stories come to mind to exemplify what Big Jimmy meant to me. The first was freshman year. I had a crush on a sophomore on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Though it may be difficult to believe, sometimes MIT students like to ... find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  with the dormitories being so self-selecting. You get to choose where you ... (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... living group--from the dorms to the FSILGs (Fraternities, Sororities and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  that you've asked in the comments... Thanks, in part, to the transition to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I ... , I apologize! You've asked many questions, I'll do my best to answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  With Ben and Mollie recently answering your questions, I started to feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to ... entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  annotation feature it's been hard not to annotate every single thing, so this ... to a video you posted last year about your room.  I can offer you some ... New House a couple of years ago due to an extensive renovation effort

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024