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  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  a series of articles about incoming MIT students. These articles ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A ... student-articles -- are not demographically representative of MIT. Some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  opportunities offered." *Source of BNCT Picture: URL: http://www.cdic.bnl.gov/bio_bnct.htm* ... interests and sophomore Jugal Shah is living proof of MIT's success. Jugal is ... of research opportunities on campus, he was able to cross paths with Dr

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : the view from on top of Cambridge's tallest building. The MIT Radio ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... . (All the beautiful photos in the rest of this blog post are by Leif C

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I ... student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a ... the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  a great degree of compassion and commitment, and I greatly look ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  case the last three years of blogging and my recent distress over ... to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  degree of instructor interaction; some really great professors (J. King, T ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... . Since graduation, I’ve been pursuing the slow boat of academic science — I ... living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... , and she is an absolutely fascinating speaker. She has done decades of research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008