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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  arrived in Bath bright and early around 10am. That means waking up at 5 am and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the ... direct sunlight. The day becomes dark and you can see the stars. Some animals might even get confused and you could hear crickets chirping or

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  move on and pursue another dream -- and whatever else the Institute would ... registration expenses. This coming season, NYU and University of Delaware are ... Club of Boston...," and sometimes, "Representing United States of America

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  PhDs, and not all master’s degrees are equal. It’s important to have ... , and if you took another year for a master’s degree, you would start at ... between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  Institute and the city governments. My IAP so far has taken place mostly in ... firehouse across the street) and a call from our team captain saying that the ... in Colorado, snow days are few and far between. It usually takes about

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  fraternities and sororities ( NALFO ). At MIT, like many New England institutions ... , 1989 and encompasses the campuses of MIT, Harvard University, and Tufts ... consists of women from MIT, Harvard University, and Wellesley College

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  -frosh get their I3 (Interactive Introduction to the Institute) housing DVD and ... Yay, you guys asked me questions! And now, I will try to answer them ... what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  computer science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the ... school's president, Susan Hockfield, is a neuroscientist, and the institute ... -foot building of limestone and glass, the largest research building on campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  degree from the MechE department and no official recognition from the ... horrible person. Please don't tell me about it, because I already know, and I feel awful about it. =( But, my field hockey season is over and now that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  web-chat with a class at the Polytechnic Institute of Valencia (which I ... be a killer, since after the Physics test and some dinner, I ended up ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and headed over to the State Room. Luckily, groups of people were still ... — I ended up going with a gold and an Ultrium companion, not an easy

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while ... .CPW Farewell: Saturday, 5pm (and probably Battle of the Bands, too). The head of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  selective universities, for the most part, hasn't changed. And with new ... A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... public school might have equal stats, more activities, and a much lower

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  & Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the ... a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  the department and the Institute. You must be available from 12-1:00 pm ... 's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... 's best universities better. In 1970, Dean of Institute Relations at MIT ... kind of Wizard's Institute of Technology could engender such devotion

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  university campuses, female scientists are asking why, and wondering what they ... held at Columbia University and the City University of New York graduate ... Monday and Neuroscience today, and my last exam is for Thermodynamics of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... classmates are, and thought I might share some of it with you. This month, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  in his analysis of state power (1980): [The state] stores and can ... us” and “penetrates everyday life more than did any historical state ... power” and “despotic power”; the two are related but separable, so a state

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  : Lubbock, TX High school: Lubbock High School College: Tulane University, Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005