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• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  so many of their friends and classmates, also dream to study at MIT. ... rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision ... Reif argued against the possible repeal of DACA. You should read the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  probably stay on that side for at least the next 8 years of my life as I pursue a DMD/PhD dual degree at Harvard. Looking back, I realized that ... ="There aren’t a lot of those at MIT, I think"]“normal people”[/annotation] I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  Rotten.com's biography of Woz: When Steve Jobs worked at Atari, the company ... was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... . I've always been a Mac guy. I don't fall into the stereotype of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm, with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal ... . (Yes, all of them. I tried.) Slush blooms like grey wildflowers on ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  lower stakes. Decisions made at the cusp of my childhood felt vitally ... my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying ... is contributing towards the making of global citizens. 'Global

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  me before. But at the same time, I realized that in the midst of my ... out there, then I'm making good use of my time at MIT and it would prove ... probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago, I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed ... second face. Look at each of those faces from above and below, and you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  the full-size version. I’ve been looking at how changing the title of a ... a lot of research at the intersection of computer vision and ... For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at ... employment at all!” In math terms, we’d be saying that the effect of the wage ... jobs? We can’t just answer this question by looking at the wages of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  : The constant value of k, no matter how it is composed at any given ... As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  lengths about the strength of our economics department. Back to CPW… at the ... your American Cancer Society. During the event, teams of people gather at ... catch up. First off, our hearts go out to everyone at Virginia Tech. While

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  tea is pre-labeled with “99¢”, what type of person chooses to work at ... from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  always feel like I’m going through a period of transition during my time at ... above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels ... a relatively new interest. During my freshman year of college, I was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled "so many different ... , and looking at the future I saw only hazy outlines of possible paths. At ... graduates other than grad school. At the time, in my senior year of high

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup ... first marathon of line-waiting occurred at the Uffizi Gallery in Italy. We ... because there was a fake statue of David like 100 feet away. There is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she ... -year-old will board a plane at San Angelo Regional Airport/Mathis Field

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006