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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  with undergrads and grad students doing research, and we even went on ... know, I know, Harvard isn't MIT. That doesn't make the tests and research

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Castle hamburger) his name, came to America to research at MIT. Nice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  : UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), UPOP (Undergraduate

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! So so sorry that I haven’t blogged in a while. Life, we’ll say has been a little exciting lately, and by a little I mean a ton. I was…

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  lecture was centered on recent research around the dictator game. The traditional game puts two students together anonymously; the researcher gives ... ) and the researcher (oftentimes their professor) than it does between the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in ... those researchers more comfortable dealing with lab rats than people. His ... an MIT professor, Rodney Brooks. To pay for research, the start

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  : -Mark Bear (a Neuroscience professor whose research on synapses in the ... introduction to the mammalian nervous system and neuroscience research at MIT. We

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  Today, two quick items I’ve recently seen on the web (more substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence)…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  ] An MIT researcher has developed a technique to deblur shaky camera

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

  What can you do in four years?

  

  Concert Choir. Never took 6.805. Research Yes: Did a UROP, and in fact did ... ; Cognitive Sciences/Nuclear Engineering lab). Did autism-related research ... research in a foreign country. No: Never published a paper (at least not yet

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  summer? Astrophysics UROP Where? The Kavli Institute for Space Research in ... jealous!). Aline '08 is doing research in Wisconsin. I think Carly '07 is doing research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (she's course 12 and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  joy of working at the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  scientist "when you grew up"? I actually did some research to answer this one ... (sequentially) to be a research psychologist, a geneticist, a cognitive scientist

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  the MIT experience. Subject matter will range from the arts, research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... supervisor during his masters research. Mr. Dweck worked under the supervision

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  So after getting a few questions and comments about DesigNerds, I decided to email the grad student behind the project, Barry Kudrowitz. From: Barry To: Bryan “that’s great that students…

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only have two finals — but they’re almost maximally temporally separated, since I had one on Friday afternoon and…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  guarantee you'll be involved in undergraduate research!   6 classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. This past week has been deathly hosing. So I will post about what I did this week – a sort of “sample week…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  -author! Undergraduate research rules. Anyway, my behavior mice did a good job. And I, for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005