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• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do better. Colleges and universities need to do a better job of centering ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  : (This is how I brainstorm most of my doodle entries, for those of you who ... , Parks and Rec, and the Oregon Ducks). Another thing on the list of things ... feat of making science unbelievably boring. So while I was at home this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  memories. I don't know about you guys, but I attend a freaking ton of these ... always involved hour drives to Portland, free pitchers of water, free pens and pamphlets, and lots and lots of info. It's been several years since

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of ... surface Cause underneath I could tell No, I couldn't, I couldn't tell One of ... with a big group with lots of people I was close friends with. This visit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  tenured professor at George Mason University School of Law when she learned ... show that 5-6% of MIT alums earn a J.D. Of my MIT friends who are lawyers ... Judge Appointed to U.S. Court of Appeals By Sharron Kahn Luttrell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  me, some of the people I care about, and this past year.   Figure 1: My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of these were from home. Now most of them are more recent. Bottom left: A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  mit domain (mit.edu), but please don't email me with any variations of ... -by-case basis, because until I'm in the committee room with the rest of my ... of the entire applicant pool - I honestly don't have any idea what your

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  school. Two of her close friends from MIT and a number of other students that graduated in June also went on to med school. One of the reasons my daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of ... About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  hang out with me sometime today, here are some of the places you might ... Swagfest Battle of the Fakes Space Team and Screaming Water War How ... [esidence] EX[ploration Period] again (including the herculean task of scheduling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... the electronics-filled windows of Cruft Hall at Harvard University ... bag hanging on each side of the handle, and me scooting (very slowly

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT professor, and the inventor of The Inflationary Theory Of Cosmology, which is ... history of the universe, and what can cosmology tell us about the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  of Middle East Biology Principles of Macroeconomics Religious ... : Eric Lander “has been one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project” and in 2003 “has been named 'Scientist of the Year' by the National

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  college apps. A lot of universities have January 1st deadlines, and that ... , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... of getting in based on your test scores

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  university. This list can be of great use to all international students who ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  's been so well-run too. of course, it's a bit of "fake maths" in the sense ... content warning: mention of suicide. one I'm sick of all this, "How ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  This post is a culmination of many things that I’ve been thinking ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  of hanging canvases that are dispersed throughout our floors. it's a ... at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a ... Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, Khademhosseini has recently been named one of Technology

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007