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• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... . She's been doing interviews for faculty positions at all kinds of places ... handed me a degree progress sheet that showed I was four electives short of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  , microstructure of stock exchanges and initial public offerings. Her current ... Kellogg is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan ... ethnographer's, since she sometimes joins (sort of) companies for months at a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  of my life at this place. I LOVE IT. So why would anyone want to come ... reason to say so. If I think about my daily set of activities at MIT, I ... or can you actually do it here at 18 years of age? I return to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  use, at a fraction of the cost of purchased charcoal. Good work ... . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this ... opportunity! Everyone should come to the premiere of Season 2 on November 4, at

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  display at the Media Lab, or a bunch of physics demonstrations. I also hear ... . Only a day at one of the coolest institutions in the world, with your ... seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  released on March 14 -- Pi Day. This year, decisions are being released at 9 ... year. We admitted 1715 students for an admit rate of 9.6%, or fewer than one of every ten applicants. Because of the size and the strength of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:  

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive ... Sciences PhD program at Harvard Favorite class you took at MIT: 7.31 (Current ... , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  complaining about the outrageously cold weather, but a quick glance at status of my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the relatively tropical Boston winter at the top of this year’s list of things to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  of the Rubins Lab at MIT. Her lab hosts a number of undergraduate UROP ... number of MIT grads in space at one time, though -- last November, 4 MIT alums were in space at the same time: They are 4 of 34 MIT alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... Chancellor at the University of Cambridge is the Duke of Edinburgh. I recently

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... the live webcast of Wolfram Alpha going live. Be here tonight at 8 PM ... aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  offered that meet a few of the HASS requirements. Terrascope is a bit different from the rest of the FLCs in that what they offer is less about ... 1pm. With the large number of classes offered, you're then allowed to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; I was so jealous of my friend Helen--she was working at the ed ... ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  a few PE classes offered in person this fall, which I was NOT aware of ... communal pile at my house, and kept a few cause I'm actually really fond of ... study abroad, because they were more beneficial to me at the end of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... are a group of people at MIT who do this sort of thing all the time ... strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011