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• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  -income households through development of low-cost technologies. It is extremely common ... of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  guess technology has not yet entered the world of reality television and ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I've seen a plethora of Project Runway ... vague wishes of becoming fashionistas, there has been little visible

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  ? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class ... were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC ... include access to advanced vehicles, systems, and technology, the chance to ... laboratory, infantry officer school followed by command of an Army or Marine

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and elsewhere [...] on the ... . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country, thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  improving lives through the connection of the brain and technology. We do ... , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my ... of Biomolecular Systems is listed as both a Biological Engineering (BE

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... feared the finality of it, all at the same time. I find the act of ... music when you want an in-between: Switched on Pop (one of my favorite

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  International Science and Technology Initiatives). The FLC, which began this ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and ... can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  open to students at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, University of Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story ... April, a group of four sophomores, who are all incoming GEL students, won

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... talking to strangers. i also ate lots of granola bars.   i spent a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive ... bunch of freshmen figure out where they'll be the happiest. What's not to ... the automatic sense of community that you get when you walk into a room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  "technology" in the more general sense. "Life of a Tecker" was the title of my ... technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  " instead of tackling hard technology problems that have more world ... Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including Dropbox and Airbnb, and shows no signs of slowing down.  A common criticism of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016