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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  , plays a "key role in the development of modern technology and science"? ... that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole ... of the hallway during rush hour.   When the MBTA bus finally

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and ... same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population, at the same time. Which more or less sounds like massive amounts of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... of Women Engineers (SWE), only 19.7% of undergraduates in engineering ... crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors

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

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  modeled this sort of behavior. Basically, vaccines have positive ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... case, universities) subsidize something that they are offering for free

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The implication, of course, is euphemistically known as affirmative action. You may ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  first semester of my master's degree here. GPA isn't that important for my ... Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... interviews, and . . . Well, you get the point. Sort of wish I had the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  like that shade of Blue/Green, btw. Evan replied: Adam - different dorms ... ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the east side of campus have looser policies, and some other dorms on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... out what parts of the brain process which visual cues. The conference ... talk sessions all running concurrently. Part of the schedule for last

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  University of Cambridge. Typical weeks, honestly. Now clearly, some of this ... The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the ... , while Europeans do something called "enjoy life". It reminded me of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  to the efforts of the planning team, the University of Wyoming (Go ... of Wyoming. I was thrilled to join the planning team and attend the ... institutions outside of their home state.  Planning the 5 stop college fair was a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands ... teaching all my subjects, which turned out to be a whooping mix of ... into different types of infinities, which is it's own blog post

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  attracted the attention of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni ... Govern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  light is rotated a bit, but not the full 90 degrees required for all of it ... light the full 90 degrees.) G: 50% (all of the green subpixels are letting ... . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  litany of disasters and/or disruptions: fires, blackouts, strikes, typhoons ... , not new: as I blogged last year in the wake of Hurricane Michael domestically (and other catastrophes abroad), these kind of events happen, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... O), biology (IBO), linguistics (IOL), and other domains of science (ISOs), the IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... of the dining halls are closed because so many people are away from MIT ... second is something that spun out of a series of conversations between

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we ... have been quite exciting AKA lots of hard work! We scouted out our first

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012