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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  interesting, they can ask the author to explain the project, and you can have an ... projects seemed interesting or relevant to me and then engage in an ... looking and play a large part in determining how memorable a visualization

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  's credibility as a scientist and his sincerity as a believer make for an engaging ... Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), which is best known for its ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  for) beforehand and followed Dr. Jaegar's instructions in their own ... collected in a twenty-year odyssey around China, Europe, and the east coast of ... I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  in mind for this semester. We've been having exec meetings through summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing ... ="Information platform for organizations and programs in the MIT community"]MIT Engage

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them. Sometimes, with the author's permission, I blog these emails, like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  through. So here's what this past year has looked like in a snapshot: 1 ... With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... for traveling. I was recently in Istanbul, somewhere I never thought I ... breaks for tea. Everything in the building stops and everyone from the

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed ... Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes. For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will ... country programs in China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and ... professional internships for culturally aware MIT students in companies, research

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

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  Oregon to work for an engineering firm doing ballistics research. Jordan Taylor '11 -- Working for the Cataldo Ambulance service as an EMT in Boston ... but in the end it was totally worth it. For any prefrosh thinking of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples ... trip has been an experience in pushing our cultural boundaries, our first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  morning, I went with some friends for dim sum at China Pearl in Chinatown ... experienced admissions officers generally read an application in 20-25 minutes ... . In total, I picked up 4 of their CDs for only $10! Afterwards, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  . A passing grade in an ASE lets you get credit for that class and ... importance of goals in our young, impressionable minds. Just for this, though ... : learn how to cook For someone living in a [annotation note

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  sororities. In college, a lot of students are looking for social support, and ... roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider ... people, and I wasn’t sure what it was I was missing or I was looking for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often ... admissions. “It helped me get real about what we’re actually looking for,” she ... put on things, trying to be something for everyone.” In USA Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  /or hardware. We run two hackathons every year — one in the spring for high ... apply!), and one in the fall for ~1000 undergraduates. Our Fall hackathon ... ’re going to make happen in five to six months’ time, and for many of us who

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and ... they've been struggling to find an "Algebra for Kids!" book. I said that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  serve. I wrote huddled in the back of my car, an orange minivan with a ... , about Auri, a girl who lives in the tunnels beneath an ancient university ... asleep for the first time. I wrote: So apparently in daytime I feel a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  American variety) and an international movie in the lounge immediately ... looking for 5-6 frosh to join our diverse community next year, and once you ... ? come and find out!) presented by Leadership Training Institute - look for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  because none of us had ever been to Rhode Island before. In an attempt to ... pretty sleep-deprived the next day because I only slept for an hour, but I ... trip, though, was the food. In an effort to be ~fancy~ college students

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023