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FAQ / Academics and research
What is the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab?
The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) was created to coordinate and promote water and food research at MIT. MIT ... environmentally sustainable way. Check out their site to learn about all of the -
FAQ / Academics and research
Is Math fun at MIT?
A lot of our students select math as their field of interest when applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the ... topology, to applied mathematics areas such as combinatorics, computational -
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Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?
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FAQ / International applicants
What if I’m waiting for my green card?
All applicants are requested to fill out the application with their current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you ... green cards are considered to have non-U.S. citizen/non-U.S. permanent -
Blog / Admissions
Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…
that you've asked in the comments... Thanks, in part, to the transition to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I ... , I apologize! You've asked many questions, I'll do my best to answer -
Blog / Admissions
December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.
With Ben and Mollie recently answering your questions, I started to feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to ... entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and -
Blog / Hacks
MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus
annotation feature it's been hard not to annotate every single thing, so this ... to a video you posted last year about your room. I can offer you some ... New House a couple of years ago due to an extensive renovation effort -
Blog / Academics & Research
I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos
was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete -
Blog / How to Human
Sensations On Having Feelings
appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke ... intellectual vivacity. I figured that I wanted to come out of high school an -
Blog / Uncategorized
Today A Trader Joe's monologue
Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... shake it off. I also enjoy the people. The walk to Trader Joe's is -
Blog / Academics & Research
joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool
awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note='their spelling']labour[/annotation] economics”, and jointly to Angrist and Imbens for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal -
Blog / Events
Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved
Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... facing towards Pluto to collect data. Once it's finished, it will turn back -
Blog / Athletics
Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)
people is my good friend Lauren H. '16, who (among other things) happens to ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it ... , they hold weekly airshows to show off the capabilities of the restored -
Blog / Admissions
Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…
Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... people! From MIT! Talking to other people! With cameras! And chat rooms! It ... exaggerated position, just to start. Regarding the myth that, as soon as some -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!
ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... have abruptly shed their quiet greens to give way to an explosion of reds ... , like the ability to tell someone their video on YouTube of a baby hamster -
Blog / Admissions
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…
proposed to deal with an epidemic that is threatening 600 lives: one program ... helpless to resolve the inconsistency. Still, just because other people are ... start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain
Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... 21L.590 would be the perfect chance to finally take a Literature course ... plenty of time in the afternoons and on the weekends to explore as much of -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.
Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and see how it applies cross-species to higher order organisms. You might -
Blog / Research & Work Abroad
Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…
. :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... all the important insults they thought we needed to know. But let's see ... verb to match the subject. The same thing happens when you answer the