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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  Changing World Technologies, you take a turkey, cut off all the meat and ... heating oil. Not only do you get rid of agricultural waste (without feeding ... of it as well as some fertilizer and coal byproducts if you're lucky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is MITES Semester (formerly MOSTEC)?

  MITES Semester (formerly known as MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community, MOSTEC) is a six-month hybrid learning STEM and college preparation experience, free of charge, for rising high school seniors. The
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to ... . It's a bit of a tough one because my goals have changed substantially ... sort of assumed it, and so did I. By the end of my freshman year, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  "images can theoretically be faked but the lack of bowls is tangible and ... interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the ... , which has a beautiful music video. i'm not a fan of psychological horror

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  Technologies in the fall of my senior year, and I’m spending most of my IAP here ... prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  motto of the Institute. People who don't understand the concept claim that ... Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries ... like any good MIT student, 10 days of that has driven me absolutely

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too. That's what I learned this past weekend, when MIT's Association of ... falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  attracted the attention of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni ... Govern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at

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

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  organized by students — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." And ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the Institute was quite literally like no other place on Earth. All I did was ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

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

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... 't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi ... majors: 6-7, 7, and 20. I am fascinated by the workings of complex systems

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  in many of my old blogs, but I never wrote about it in a single place ... -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at MIT. Every month, Professor Resnick invites a member of the department

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  "Massachusetts" in "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", replacing banner put up ... of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and ... home, heading away from the bubble of MIT towards the place I grew up. I ... at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... ... try the Kickboxing PE Class Looking for History of Magic, try: 21A.211 ... Introduction to Astronomy Looking for Care of Magical Creatures, try 21H.909

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... seem out of reach because of where family lives, but is that always true

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  bridged through the aims of technological innovation, regardless of ... Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a ... at exploring different methods of solar cell characterization and

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  of the world’s most important centers of information technology ... When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016