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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question. It's a bit of a tough one because my goals have changed substantially

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  beautiful 270 degree view of the entire of city of Barcelona, the ocean in the ... This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El Mirador del Valle--the most beautiful view of Toledo. Photo credit: Rachel

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel ... ungrateful, I see it as a "fake" CS internship. It's not a real Microsoft

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  sounds like--a team of students designs, builds, and flies a remote-control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  guys all rock in one way or another. Sorry to those of you who couldn ... be mad blog coverage of CPW over the next few days, so fear not. And finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff

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

  screaming a mood board

  

  handed me a degree progress sheet that showed I was four electives short of ... stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

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

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  neighborhood where you'll find CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, is actually ... dinner at one of Boston's yummy Russian-Armenian restaurants, Cafe Levonya ... one of their specialties) was even better than advertised. Then the Red

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  -length weekend, if you don't have Monday off). I know that fall of senior year can be a pretty hectic time. During the October of my senior year, way back in the forgotten mists of 2004, I was editing the newspaper, the lead

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode, Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  For those of you who don't remember or are new here (or don't care ... Northwestern University, an intensive three-week academic program for gifted ... my argument, too. There's a video on CollegeHumor of some students

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  - 5 PM Where: 2nd floor of the Student Center (La Sala de Puerto Rico ... the face value of your education by coupling scholastic endeavors with ... . Take advantage of the wondrous opportunity to discover a different

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  Forbes article, MIT was listed as one of the most attended universities of ... , and University of Pennsylvania. Obviously, awards are subjective, and ... On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  weights of the top three airplanes at the end of today: University of ... Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet Texter", 91 percent of people between 28-35 have used their mobile devices ... think of. As our Internet culture continues to mature, words such as

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a logical degree system)! Days like this make me glad for two things: 1) my ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... search for is information. Any information. It will tell you the GDP of any ... the history of that country's GDP. It can tell you about scales in music

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

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year ... degree since I would have a PhD as well? Right now, I think the answer is

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the minute he walked through the doors of Volaris’ Samara offices, Tayo, MIT Sloan MBA ’14, was reminded that he was at one of Latin

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015