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• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  understand how the human body reacts to injury. Want to learn more about Melis ... 'll be posting about the experience! (In the meantime, feel free to leave a ... Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  ." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made ... wanted to live here and study here. Who wouldn't want to be in the center ... If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  fresh corpse lying in a puddle of caramel gore. (Despite my attempt to ... This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that conflicts with lunchtime in pretty much every single reference frame. Let me

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  instructors to students in the program, including some of the coolest names in ... class follow-up to 2.009. 2.009 introduces you to how products are made ... specifically at technology and how it affects culture. From surveillance to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  anything related to biochemistry given how poorly I did in 7.05, but this I ... how many total classes I've taken since then, but I came close to taking ... this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  in the Physics department - Course 8 - is called 8.971. Here's how the ... 't get to have him for 18.02, but his lectures are nothing short of legendary (how many classes have YOU been in where students gave standing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should ... , anyway. The interview is simply a way for you to tell us in person. Some ... there are no right or wrong things to talk about in the interview. There

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  of ideas about how to continue from which students may choose. In some ... how to write with AI assistance, but in our opinion, we have not reached ... I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the ... historical challenge. Anyone from around the world can join to listen. The description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story ... to have many questions around this, and we'll try to address them in the coming days. In the meantime, there are a few things we wanted to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend each year. To help ... 't know if we will be able to select students from the wait list until admitted students return their enrollment decisions in early May.
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  .Take some time today to reach out to people in your dorm. Check on how they ... to feel alone in the battles you take here. Nothing attests to this ... checking in on people, campaigning to raise funding for families affected by

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  4 years, not to mention the fact that it was unsafe in its functional ... : Benji Moncivaiz In the back of the pickup truck. Left to right ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  like, how are you alive."]most of my friends were in more ... classes I was in, I wanted to spend more time working on personal projects ... too many things, only to suffer later on. I'm still learning how to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  ; Ashima's first years of marriage in America; the Ganguli's trip to India ... Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big ... Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  school students to participate in an exciting annual event presented by the ... with current MIT students in a casual environment and discuss how MIT ... 29, 2011, from 2:30 to 4:00 pm in Lobby 10 at MIT. Students can fill

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR ... in a sustainable fashion anytime soon. So, until we get a big ... sitting in my room listening to Ween, meanwhile Joe '08 won $25,000 to save

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman ... to us, and maybe something we’d even want to major in. Fast forward to getting accepted to MIT. We were beyond shocked and ecstatic. We Felt All

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Square. Knowing we had a long day in front of us, we resolved to fortify ... mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... delicious dim sum with friends in Chinatown. After gorging ourselves on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... is where I continue to work on ElectroPlushies and get them up and running. We're meeting with a manufacturer in a couple of weeks to discuss

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008