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• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  . we talked about funding for policy experimentation, research of police violence, research of racism and unconscious bias and structural injustice ... the research and policy initiatives of #CampaignZero. learn about the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  When do we actually grow up? Did I automatically become an adult when I turned 18, or was it when I had my Bat Mitzvah at 12? “When I grow…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Katharina Ribbeck on biomaterials, whose research is on mucus. (I studied ... right places in the body. So some of the research on drug delivery is ... do research at MIT (especially as a undergrad - you can work in Prof

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or AeroAstro for short) has its benefits. For instance, we all got priority tickets to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  It’s been a week since the Career Fair, which still feels like yesterday, and two weeks since my last blog post, which also still feels like yesterday. And September is…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  does research on the sun at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ... -partisan knowledge tank on Capitol Hill called the Congressional Research Service. But ... staffer. Research the individuals in advance, learn about their priorities

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  I’ll be honest—I had never really planned on going abroad during college. Not even for a bit! (I’m starting to think I’m always more homesick than I realized…) It’s a…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1.013 (Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design, for those not yet versed in MIT speak). There…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation called Transforming Transportation. Flying down was a bit nerve wracking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at ... fellow researching durable nanoengineered surfaces for improved power ... :  I researched and analyzed the current state of the art in wind turbine

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  who have contributed to leading research and development efforts ... and researchers have pioneered countless innovations, including the ... that landed Americans on the moon; Whereas MIT biomedical researchers

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  stamen (the yellow pokey parts). Researchers found mutants that had a ton

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  (Preface: I am also sorry for disappearing. D:) — So anyone who knows me knows that I have strange computer habits/superstitions such as keeping the laptop charging even though it’s…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  , the new cancer research center here is just being finished and will hope ... students do research, others take classes like 6.270, glass blowing, MASLab ... winter without having to go outside. UROP (undergraduate research

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  I am happy to report several things: 1) I no longer have swine flu 2) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4)…

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  research students working on understanding viruses like smallpox. Dr. Rubins

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  that research took place at Los Alamos. I bet housing is cheap out there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  research MIT is so well known for is still advancing at full throttle, across ... small) contribution to this research through my UROP in the Langer Lab. In ... famous and most highly respected researchers and scholars. Of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  results - not only in terms of the groundbreaking research and new ... -sets, more studying, more researching, more everything - the aspect of MIT that ... research opportunities are a close second.) Put it this way: I can learn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  famous researcher as your advisor" bit. Winston teaches the concepts using

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007