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• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  scholars and will spend two or three years of graduate study at Oxford ... biography reads: Melis N. Anahtar, Bethesda, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the most of your MIT education." After three years of eclectic classes ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  's room. Now the concept of spraying water at each other *indoors* seems ... Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  This summer my friends (who are around, instead of doing cool internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random opportunities around Boston and MIT campus. A lot of these adventures start

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  through the online reply form at MyMIT. You have three choices: tell us you're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious. Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  !") Speaking of which, during Floor Rush at Burton Conner, I visited every single ... everyone to meet us at Anna's. Problem solved.) I love the location of our ... . Speaking of my new (permenant! yay!) room, April (my roommate) and I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas ... Mesopotamians were at the pinnacle of metallurgy and urban living, 500 years ago

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each ... Look at this: And this: And this: And maybe even this: I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  words or phrases have been banned at the university.” Even so, it's pretty ... in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most prestigious universities to support it - at least in formal settings - is big

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory ... One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  Mid-Year Grade Report until the middle of February and at the same time ... highest levels at MIT with bad knowledge of English?" Yes, there are many ... Jones, dean of admissions at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., said she has

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  first semester at MIT had the lowest graduation rate out of all the other ... for the University of Southern California. “I just got worn down ... of all the dorms at MIT. i know 40% of senior house residents identify

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  at MIT." So true. (Click here to watch an amateur video of the Joneses ... on what I was up to this weekend: Thursday night: At the opening ... experience in all the labs on campus. It's one of the many things that make MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... is nothing at all. "If you have the slightest recollection of what ... : there are a lot of times where i dont feel like im at all living up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  offerings at MIT. Among her many experiences, Ana worked in the Sinkey Lab, one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says ... The Class of 2007 walked across the stage last Friday, and among the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of ... remember really trying to encourage her because at the end of the day, speed ... , practically buzzing at the endless possibilities that Scratch offered, reminded

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs ... . Typically there is a "well" of potential energy, and a certain point at which ... lot of historiography, which is basically looking at historians' bias in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  Here's a look at this year's incoming freshman class. Over the next week, we'll take a look at some of the individuals in the class... The MIT Class of 2010, by: Gender: Male 55% Female 45% Ethnicity: African

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... take a look at the result of the stacking - the sum of all the signal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012