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What career services are available?
students—current and alumni—as they explore and prepare for careers. Whether you are planning for a career, searching for an internship or job, or ... average starting salary for an MIT undergraduate—regardless of major—is $126 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT
Lightning Talks" for our admitted students and parents. Nine faculty members ... for answers. Designing Interactions by Federico Casalegno, Associate ... . Kelvy set up a few whiteboards in the corner of the room and drew while -
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ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…
timing, too. My flight is about to leave for Sacramento where family and turkey await; I gave myself a strict no-homework policy for the next few days, so this will probably be my chance to catch up on sleep and -
Blog / Academics & Research
A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.
I showed up to Diaz's reading, regrettably bookless, and was magically ... signature. He won a Pulitzer for literature, not for autographing.) It almost -
Blog / Events
Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!
(well I certainly was), but then we loosened up and it was hilarious. The ... managed to find my way back to Sidney-Pacific for the night. My host Tina ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were -
Blog / Admissions
A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.
and things to discover, so kindly refrain from clogging up our path ... buildings. It's a great thing for lost visitors in the summer and frozen ... (only about a third to a half of whom are here for the summer, mostly -
Blog / Academics & Research
UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…
Technology Officer (CTO) of Goldman Sachs and MIT Class of 1977. For those of ... back-up his position. Mr. Dweck entered MIT with the goal of finishing ... of a PhD student for two years, working with clathrate hydrates -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…
's another story for another day. There were also a lot of pieces by the ... crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an ... begun to transform into a machine. Food for thought? What else -- there -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!
] sheet - unvoiced [ʒ] azure - voiced Palatal: This one is hard for me to ... sound. (Put your hand up to your mouth and try saying [t] and [s] a few ... three are nasal: for these sounds, there is an obstruction that we make -
Blog / Academics & Research
Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe
process for us and dramatically speeds up experiments. Instead of placing ... that quantum phenomena, as absurd as they seem, are real. And for once, I ... light that, for simplicity, we can measure as an angle between 0° and 90 -
Blog / MIT Life
Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!
insane special effects) for me, but I was curled up in the fetal position ... have no excuses! (I've also realized that there is a Spongebob gif for ... folks hyped this movie up, so perhaps that contributed to my slight -
Blog / How to Human
Sensations On Having Feelings
behind and I cook the vegetables for a few minutes only, the fewer the ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and ... most of my commute to class looking up, absorbed by the scintillating -
Blog / Admissions
Lies, damn lies, and statistics
parents' forum) where parents were discussing the pressure to load up on AP ... applications ask for your unweighted GPA, so the fact that your GPA is 26.2 on a ... also an all-time record for my school. Now comes the funny part -
Blog / Challenges
101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out
decisions for me and suddenly I miss the innocence my parents had wrapped me ... road trip to take for a three day weekend? What makes a good partner ... ’m stupid for asking so many questions? How can I ration the number of -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Admitted Early
YOU GOT IN! It's time to Later today you'll get more information about next steps for admitted students via email and MyMIT. But for now, go celebrate! -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Admitted Early
YOU GOT IN! Later today you'll get more information about next steps for admitted students via email and MyMIT. But for now, go celebrate! -
Blog / Academics & Research
Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.
Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here. -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Not Admitted Open thread for denied students.
Admitting such a small percentage of the applicant pool means that we unfortunately have to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk. -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Not Admitted A forum for students who were not admitted.
Admitting such a small percentage of the applicant pool means that we unfortunately have to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk.