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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... pasty, intimidating tour-de-geek-force) the writer decided "the will

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• 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 / 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
• 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

  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
• 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 / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  . Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, a museum which celebrates activism and especially ... time I cross a street. My international friend finds all of this entirely ... [/caption] When last weekend came around, we went to Rio de Janeiro as a class to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  Institute of Technology an institution that has been developing cutting edge ... Commonwealth Joe DeNucci Mayor of Cambridge Denise Simmons Mayor of Somerville ... Jeff Young Susan Hockfield, Ph.D. - President, Massachusetts Institute

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  de Florez Fund for Humor sponsored this free (to the MIT community

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into concrete sidewalk grids, swollen with rain delicately infused with the brine

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009