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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex ... were modeled after European cities with islands such as the Ile de Cite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  ://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1226150-1,00.html Yet another article de-emphasizing the ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an outspoken advocate of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  school senior from India and thereby an international candidate.I am one of ... practically done everything my school has to offer and am also the president of ... lowry of RSI. I asked her that I was an international student and that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  admission decision means. If you are offered admission to an institution, it means that you have the opportunity to matriculate. If you are not offered admission to an institution, it means that you do not have the opportunity to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it will not permit international ... living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to its international students who cannot safely return home; meanwhile, our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  , and with this new approach to cross-institutional classes, we were able ... , and offered our technical background to try to devise robust solutions ... transportation technology. Our bill, the TransporTech Act, aims to offer states a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  to register for every single class offered at the Institvte if they ... - Intro to Comparative Media Studies. Offers an overview of the social ... media, core media institutions, and media in transition. 21L.011- The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  celebrate. He also informed us that there was an international snowboarding ... :30. We caught a half-hour bus ride to La Chute de Montmorency, a waterfall ... . I got attacked by a bear. We went to the Centre d’Histoire de

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  memorization techniques. Professor DeGraff also told me that when he was a child ... nurses who were working with International Medical Corps, who told us that ... DeGraff's brother and sister-in-law also came and met with us for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  MIT students tried to better their Spanish, interned at local companies ... combination of cream cheese, soy sauce, sesame seeds, and pico de gallo on bread ... what MISTI is, the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  fait la grandeur d'un petit pays Willem De Graeve Deputy Director, Belgian Comic Strip Centre Directeur Adjoint, Centre Belge de la Bande ... for this small country! Willem De Graeve will discuss the history of

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  in these things. RATP headquarters (Maison de la RATP/House of RATP) near Gare de Lyon, Paris For the first three weeks or so, we developed ... few graduate students who are interning at the agency. We talked about

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  third UROPs, offers were made to me unexpectedly in casual conversations ... technically an international student because I have US citizenship. However, my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  night.” - Marie de A. ‘18 (not pictured, but the top of the doorframe ... Charles Baudelaire's poem Le Goût du néant (The Taste for Nothingness) that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy ... .      Ellen Kullman, the first woman CEO and current CEO of DuPont, was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  at the Institute—and he's been practicing his craft in Lobby 10 ever ... campus police alike. He has come to serve as the de facto guardian of Lobby ... the Institute’s hallways without escort or a limit to visiting hours

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  next generation e-commerce startup. In stealth mode." By October many of ... with job opportunities offered by MIT alumni. These positions cover ... towards positions that offered the opportunity to do design work. I finally

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  have thought that another institution was a better (gasp) match for them ... offers a lot of choices, and navigating those choices is much easier if you ... are concerned about who we offer admission to, we are concerned about

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012