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  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  address, President Hockfield said, "A second great opportunity, and a great obligation, is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of ... work of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). Founded in September 2006

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  convey my point, I present to you the not-at-all-exhaustive and not ... speaks to my curiosity about the fundamental working of the universe, and I ... ’m not sure that I would want to pursue pure physics research as a career

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  administrative authorities can seriously address this reoccurring pattern and work ... success by so simple a metric as whether or not you graduated in four years ... 's not our job to sell you a polished picture of why MIT is paradise

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Earlier this week I blogged about Michael Lewis' commencement address ... little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world ... interests were. I deliberately decided not to come up with a plan for that

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  'm not a huge fan of salad dressing in general, and DEFINITELY not a huge ... talking about pulsars, I make a deal with the class. They are not allowed to ... Splash class on my research, since I only started work on pulsars over the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  probably some others, but I'm not certain so I left them off). Mollie added ... are not really school-oriented as ECs, such as computing skills or ... many intl. cases, the applicant probably hasn't had any 'Work Experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  to earn a degree in nursing (she works part-time as a nursing assistant ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work ... is that like, overdoing it and being pushy and generally not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  wrong. Can you come over and help?" Yeah, I can come over. We worked for ... other team member, Joe. I'm not sure why I was on the floor, or how I got ... MIT is about being ridiculously overworked and not getting enough sleep

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  yet whether or not I'm going to repack or whether I'm just going to take ... mom working at Draper, if he didn't have to do that pesky school thing during the school year and could work 40 hours a week all year. He has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  POST HERE), who's another blogger! We’re both working in the Dexterous ... dotted the fields. When the train went through Bath Spa Station, the track ... not the United States. This past semester, all of the students in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working ... previously worked on another voter registration app funded by the MIT Sandbox ... thanks to their work over the past year, MIT has just unveiled a new voter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  itself, we knew very little about how serving alcohol works at parties; we ... alumni addresses for updates, we had an addressing party. With a few dozen people and lots of pizza, addressing and putting together ~550 envelopes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  Bloggers) ANYTHING!" On that post (not this one!), you can go down in the ... , or how our days have been, what we ate for breakfast, etc. We might not ... ! However, we will deliberately not answer questions that (1) are along the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  admission to MIT. MIT has its own application – we are not on the Common ... additional is absolutely not required or expected. But, sometimes students want ... materials to MIT, please use this address: MIT Undergraduate Admissions

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... favor the applicants that did the optional essay? I personally did not do ... 've said, like I would have been) in not answering the "completely optional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  strong work ethic on top. Simple enough, I figured it summed me up pretty ... applications like an assembly line worker you may not have time to just wait for ... keep track of all those teacher recommendations and things. It's not

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  started working in the Sabeti lab at the Broad, my thesis lab. This is the lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... . Over IAP I am working on a short-term project and my thesis proposal

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  really sad, because a lot of high school students work really hard racking ... is not quite like a placement test because it doesn’t let you skip ... earning class credit, with very little downside. What I’m saying is that if

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  year if not MIT is confirmed. I am continuing with my research work and ... the optional essays are considered optional in that they are not ... you, but most likely will not harm you. Don't you find it fishy that all

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006