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  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday ... table. So while we're buried in the committee room, here's a topic I ... we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  A few weeks ago, MIT —  in conjunction with Stanford, IBM, and Aeris ... to the lawsuit in question, but that have a stake or insight into the matter before the Court. MIT had previously filed similar briefs in prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   ... many random pictures as we could. These people, in true MIT fashion ... inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  from MIT have been filled with some great experiences. In the end though ... an around the world experience, but in the end, I just couldn’t stay ... Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January ... coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... – MIT’s founder – chiseled high up in the building’s façade.  

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  , just didn't shower? Me too. But seriously, congratulations! In my 9 ... one experiment we ran in class involved everyone writing down their ... memories". In this case, specifically recalling the day you found out you got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking ... failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological ... your way in four days and an orgo test coming my way in a week, it'd be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  ., Mar. 1, 2009 ... WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM EST MONDAY... TODAYS SNOW AND FLURRIES IN SOUTHERN NEW ... FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH 5 TO 10 INCHES IN THE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so ... that admission just means that you got your foot in the door. It's not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... Rush. You have to look kind of closely to see him in this picture though. His image was clearer in real life. (In case you're curious, that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the ... that I was an MIT student definitely helped me get hired. I arrived in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  This Sunday, I am participating in the 2006 AIDS Walk San Francisco ... '06 will be walking with us as well. If you're in the Bay Area this ... Gate Park. 9:00 a.m. Sign-In opens 9:30 a.m. Aerobic Warm-Up sponsored

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  can apply to up to 3 positions in the San Francisco, New York, Los ... companies, but in my humble opinion, the best thing about this is career advice you can get from alums in your major who have gone into different

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I'm sure I ... has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory experiments in the social sciences -- both what these experiments have taught

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  and its associated undergraduate major/minor in Science Writing. According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable ... writing major is an option for students interested in science journalism

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... Instagrammed my food.   (In my defense, the latte art deserved ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... straight up bio, and in which I had some preexisting interest. I didn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  humanities classes MIT requires. In this case Asia really means China, and I ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to ... , one of the first cities to open up to foreign investment in the 1980s

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014