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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  undergraduate advisors. (All of the classes at MIT are taught by PhDs, and those PhDs are almost exclusively faculty members. In the rare cases when non ... my PhD program sent all of us new first-years an Excel spreadsheet with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  accomplishments, Alicia has a perfect 5.0 GPA, is headed into the PhD program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  is an MD/PhD who studies protein-protein interactions and signal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  .B.A. from MIT Sloan School of Management (May 1998) -a Ph.D. from the MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  't accepted into the biology PhD program. The change in policy is effective

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  I've had some great conversations over the past few weeks with folks in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  told me that he thinks I'll get into my top-choice PhD program (which is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  .21J Health Economics professor: Jeffrey Harris (MD and PhD in economics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  PhD in either astronomy or astrophysics and pursue a career in research.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by Chicago economist Steven Levitt. He received his PhD from MIT in 1994, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  by women PhD candidates in the MIT EECS [Electrical Engineering &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  , achievements, etc.) I got my SB and MEng and am currently working on my PhD. My ... critique. What would she think of my PhD so far? She’d probably work far ... problem with self-worth during a PhD the concentration of responsibility for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  was rejected from both of those jobs and accepted to all four Physics Ph ... -tier astrophysics PhD offer I should accept, I decided to go to Stanford. Despite

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  ) is a PhD student in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford. She graduated ... Technology Review as authored by Simson Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05, along with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  applying for her PhD, she gave me a small stapled packet that includes her ... no one else could speak to as well as me. PhD applications are (very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  classes, TA some classes. Write and defend a Ph.D. thesis, which earns you a name like: "Dr. Anna Ho" or "Anna Ho, Ph.D." Pretty sweet. How long do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  ; Calculus 2   Taught by Dr. Chris Dodd '11, PhD in Mathematics at MIT ... ) own Dr. Patti Christie, PhD in Chemistry at MIT, Chemistry was one of my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  …we die. Even our blood concentration, if it’s pH is outside of the range 7.2-7.4…we die. Is it really coincidental that a neutral pH is at 7? Is it just

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... . Beth was about to finish her PhD and move on to a new position

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007