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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk ... : Course 6-7, or 7, or maybe 20.  I had loved AP Biology in high school ... major I ended up declaring, go to grad school, get a job at a biotech

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  in Florida. Last night began the first of four presentations with my colleagues from Princeton, Swarthmore, and Wellesley. (Check out the rest of ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  found himself stricken with a case of influenza, exhibiting such symptoms ... a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at ... !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  representing 65 teams from more than 50 schools participated in the first "P3 ... of the chemistry department and Jamie Lewis Keith of the Environmental Programs Office, received an EPA grant of $30,000. Read the whole article

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  -registration. Outside of formal inter-school things like cross-registration, the countless ... Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... academic opportunities for students in each school and because if it weren

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), and the HASS ... considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  vaguely political ambiguity of the previous sentences and would rather just ... . This new group hosts a monthly forum in which attendees discuss issues of ... open to all MIT students regardless of identity. How did you find out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  work of Félix González-Torres stands at the intersection of these two schools. See: Untitled (Passport) Untitled (Passport), 1991, courtesy of BAK You are invited to take a page from a stack of blank paper

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  we already have. Also note that while some of your schools submitted ... finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early ... next week. That means that most of you who have a missing document will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  much in the way of good professional sports teams - it's mostly the ... passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games (my dad's from Chicago, so most of them were Cubs or White Sox), maybe

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The ... year out of MIT: Another $10. Second year:$10 + $10 = $20. Third year

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its final draft pending approval by the UA Senate. I'm proud of having ... experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What schools can I cross-register with?

  If you find something that you’re interested in studying that isn’t available at MIT, you have the option to cross-register at Harvard, Wellesley College, and MassArt.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... /c) airplanes, both of my UROPs center around the development of unmanned aerial ... picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  ’re applying to more than one school. Don’t fall into the trap of the “dream ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my ... making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  school can help you be better prepared for these kinds of decisions – you ... (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT ... teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  !   Arts & Crafty Things When my senior year of high school kicked in, my brain began to register that I would be going to school out-of ... whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024