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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  topics; and exploring best practices at other institutions. I plan to ... head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  technology competition at Washington State University based on their work ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A ... state in the class), are very underrepresented. For a full look at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer transfer credit?

  offered at your institution to those offered at MIT with the MIT Bulletin (course and degree catalog). The bulletin provides a comprehensive description of the Institute's academic programs. Transfer students typically
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  family friends and then we bought a duplicate for us. A non-institute ... My sophomore fall I took an STS (science, technology, and society) writing class with Sherry Turkle, STS.043 (Technology and Self: Science

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  with a Bachelor's and Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies & ... selling out). At #6, Lee Jung's "Look at Me" borrows from Bollywood (and ... colleagues who have their blogs up and running now. Ben Jones is my rock star

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  , Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea from the University of Edinburgh and ... Digital Learning. Features and Resources of The Open University The Open University, located in the United Kingdom and presented by Professor Eileen

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  high school. Anyway, the biography was great and from what I understand ... that flipped Watson's lightbulb switch regarding the structure of DNA and ... subjects I recognized from 3.091 and developed her own preparation technique

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  . Here, life is beautiful. (and warm too!! It's around 80 degrees in ... families and speaking Spanish almost 24/7! 28. 21F.782 covers the entire ... every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  Computer Science.' Also one of my brother's received a bachelors degree and ... currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to ... , and sending your abstract along when it is complete. We will be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  institutes and universities with regards to diversity, equity, and inclusion ... have power to alter societal ethics, and stated that the College of ... and investments): Quite simply, I think that the Institute needs to do a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  the bomb squad wasn't so happy with a giant fake bomb and so they ended ... fake bomb, bomb squad, forklift, and DTYD tonight. : ) ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... . The answer: a loud and resounding thud. EPIC FAIL!!!! But I'm being harsh. It was certainly entertaining, and the fake-out was funny, but they

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• 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…

  

  Boston University Theatre. The weather is still nice, and nope, I’m still ... random old dude is stabbed. He sings and moans and sings as fake blood ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic states. Details can be found here ... sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Washington University in St. Louis, and down the hall was a colleague from ... I did was for the Gateway Institute, a program for minority and low ... ; Memory and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Tomorrow, I will fly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  the States for university that you'll cast a wide net -- not just MIT ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  near impossible to fake. And it would allow us to deliver the decision in ... want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... , and you've been amazing through the whole thing. I've read every single

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  !!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8) There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to ... then the Institute-wide snowball fight happened. And maybe I can get

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  -Israel Program 2010 Internship: Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv I gained and ... , Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico and Spain to explore foreign architecture and ... Dima Ayyash, Maggie Nelson and Nathan Prevende, went through MISTI to try

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  written. it is highly unedited and makes me feel both embarrassed and proud. i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm trying to see ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016