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  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and before that at ... in exchange for some research or teaching activities. Last week, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  , who is just 41 years old, shares the prize with fellow researchers Saul ... writing "a final research paper on baseball's 1919 'Black Sox' scandal. He ... themselves. In 1998, cosmology was shaken at its foundations as two research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  versions of research papers, I would have thought this an eternity. But ten ... audience, especially when you're trying to explain complicated research to ... entire research field into one presentation," and I was like, "But these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  into academia or research, so being published is just sort of generally

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  . Bioengineering is still incredibly ground-breaking, with new research pushing the ... engineering summer camps, participating in FIRST, or doing research). It's also

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  say that research definitely is not the focus of the undergraduate ... . At least in mathematics, after this fourth year, many enter a research ... -year MPhil. So basically research is not the focus early on because instead you

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  ; our research, however, is centered around the natural compounds produced ... for summer research programs my GPA is too low for me to be accepted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  are a great way to really get involved with a research project, since

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  world's leading IT media, research and exposition company") and philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... called Edmund Berkeley and asked if he wanted to develop a market research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of ... Brothers Wind Tunnel MIT Cycling Undergraduate Research Opportunities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Research and a lab in the Health Sciences & Technology (HST) program. Xiang has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... cheerleading and research?" I do have a paper which is currently in revision for ... research (and the blog!) -- not that it matters, because graduate schools don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  research experience and recs were more important. Yes, but in a qualified way. For science and engineering, research experience and professor recs are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  20 minutes. (If you added a lid the water would boil over, and that ... ). Add salt, pepper, and any other spices you like adding to meat. When ... a half tablespoons of salt to the soup. You will be adding more later

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  /ACT requirement for future admissions cycles. Our research shows standardized tests ... regularly research the outcomes of MIT students and our own admissions ... our office, we have a dedicated research and analysis team that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no every-day classes, no problem sets, no only a few last-minute, late nights. Without classes this month…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  programming classes. I wanted to do research and learn about space. I was also

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. ’21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Lesson learned–you should always have a backup plan. Or improvise. After end of…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  CPW doesn’t get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw events and have a…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017