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• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva ... educational press has been buzzing about the launch of Minerva University

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  where people can post requests and offers for various types of aid, such ... of you are still dealing with damage to your homes and schools and ... Nov. 1 EA deadline) because of these things, please take note of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years. To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and ... and a walking encyclopedia of information on health and nutrition. We

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid ... to one of these programs, don't procrastinate! The MIT programs are just three of many terrific math & science summer programs that high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our finals. One of the nice thing about Tosci's is that they have some pretty

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts ... Memorial Drive side instead of Amherst Alley because I don't quite grasp the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  of just helps me gauge my offers and remember my goals. Blog every ... coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting ... , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  -to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... Scale? It's one of my favorite career fair shirts, although I'm still mad that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  most of what the studio above my old middle school had to offer, but at ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  enough ago that few of you were reading my blog. A little bit of context ... of Peeto '01 and his lovely fiancee Meaghan. He's one of our zanier alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student-driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... of overpriced food around Kendall and Central due to the proximity of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  on January 31st, but close enough"]the month of January,[/annotation] MIT offers an "Independent Activities Period" where students do ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... of using my entire skill set instead of choosing between STEM and ... generalization, but the realization was enough to turn me off from these type of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  too), and he (apparently) wrote an absolutely stunning letter of ... of them, I couldn't very well design my own experiments. Although I wasn't in charge of experimental design for this project, it's not like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  my CPW! Interspaced between pictures of Boston and campus were other assorted pictures—midnight karaoke, bleached hair, and lots, lots, lots of ... time as a prospective student. In light of it being the night before CPW

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... vessel of content (text and/or illustrations).” This definition encompasses

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  Talent Development is offering high achieving young people across the ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a significant piece of work in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Music, Literature

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008