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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things ... undergraduate advisors. (All of the classes at MIT are taught by PhDs, and those ... conclusion, biology at MIT rocks. Postscript to that -- The administrator of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  't graded; everything depends on the final (the Tripos) at the end of the year ... idea of what being at MIT would be like. The previous summer, I ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  the kids? Too few of them were looking directly at the students using ... It’s summertime @ MIT! I'm relaxing at home after graduating last ... few of my friends are participating in - Spokes: Biking Across America

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... that there are fewer women. But the interesting effect of being at MIT is ... overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  got out of the MITblogs ice cream social at Toscanini's semibohemian ... missed out on getting the best cooking book of all time at Barnes and Noble ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  myself, mostly because my birthday always falls at the start of the school ... into the air, aiming at different patches of sky. Sometimes, a friend ... The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

          i've been spending a lot of time ... for the quietness of not-city sounds). i've been spending a lot of time ... trying to stay caught up: bad news (congress voted to kill a bunch of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  "]Course[/annotation] at MIT requires the completion of [annotation note="You can take more ... . 7.18 is a behemoth 30-[annotation note="At MIT, 1 unit=1 hour of in ... .002 was first offered last semester as a sort of intro lab class that first

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  say, both of these desires were fulfilled. I arrived at MIT around 8 AM ... (CPW activities booklet), 15% discount at the COOP, $20.12 worth of Tech ... behind us, and he offered to have someone give us a tour of 5th East. SWEET

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... decisions at the front end of this process. This meant that I was in a great ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  numbered, and repeated as endnotes at the bottom of the blog. We use this ... these dates — and copies of opinions, once they are posted — at SCOTUSblog ... majority of our students are either immigrants or the child of at least one

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  envelope to open at the gate, which contained photos of my parents, my sister ... that window, I'd never seen such a massive place. At the entrance of ... friends at MIT, and Rafael, the boy at the end of the hall, who I now know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  barely edited this blog post at all, as, like the rest of the student body ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  morning I left home for college: at the end of the summer, I would fly ... animals at the foot of my bed, the Tweety Bird bedsheets –   You ... wild with dreams of making a huge discovery at the lab and becoming super

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... course of my job of turning turkeys into oil, there are long periods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006