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  RA Selection Day 2

  

  , I ate at the brand new Steam Cafe, a very yummy new dining option! I ... major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty yesterday approved a new course of study for undergraduates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  fellow Poriferan who was at the drop with me.) Unfufilled by the lack of ... cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• 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 Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... Course 6 classes. Some of you may have to pick a college because it offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• 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 / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer at the end of the entry] Probably the most popular questions asked at ... folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  picture of his favorite computer game offered by Mad Scientist Software. (I ... So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my ... recording of it. Tidbit #2: Professor Yaffe is also an MD. Thus, to prove

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• 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 / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  applicants. After several rounds of an extremely rigorous transfer committee process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  junior year and it's exactly due to the above quote. A lot of my time at ... ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  , so they chose one of the motors at random and installed it in their ... you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open ... some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... were starting - because a few days ago, I got kicked out of my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  interesting offerings in this year's Spalsh course catalogue. Well, a couple of ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  offers a lot of choices, and navigating those choices is much easier if you ... important, and at the end of the survey indicate that Cultural Affinity is ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... percentage of foreign students than Tech." At the time, one out of every 15 ... ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• 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