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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  state the flagship state university provides strong programs in areas our ... speaking, the most prestigious colleges and universities will prefer the ... joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  . Jim Ross lecture I admit it; growing up, my brother and I watched pro ... real sport and does not involve costumes or beating people with steel ... scientists and engineers who would give guest lectures. Over my years here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  program, and since then I've realized this is probably the most important information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... can go ahead and read your application. Get it? Got it? Good ... nuclear engineering and wrote about a high school project that she was

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... Hello readers. Happy Holidays to everyone! The term is over and I'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  skills. The Course 1-12 Climate System Science and Engineering degree ... -4: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making, which the MIT faculty had just ... — jointly offered between Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Earth

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  be wondering: who is this girl and why is she talking about astronomy ... Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.) Some news from me: I have a new blog now. Here it is. and now, here are three thoughts

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  .I.-assisted writing. CMS/W is where I did my grad degree, and also occasionally teach ... . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... commentary in the popular press (and Discourse™ on social media) about these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  only caught up in finishing psets, completing exams, and getting a degree ... :58 AM* "AH CRAPPPP. NOT AGAIN!" *throws TI-89 calculator into pocket and ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  years ago, I chose between undergraduate programs at Ohio State and at MIT ... going to state school would mean an automatic 4.0 and admission into a top ... competition between students, and is it destructive competition? Before I give a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  , universities, research institutes and NGOs around the world. In addition to Chile ... , is home to the country’s most important universities and research ... Economy, Development and Tourism, MIT-Chile will create opportunities for

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  , universities (including MIT and Harvard) and teaching hospitals. 1/5 of Nobel ... My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Tyra Banks is 5'10" tall and weighs 161 lbs. I am 5'9 3/4" tall and weight 150 lbs. I have taken a cue from fellow blogger Lulu and ... spare pictures from last month that I had meant to blog and assembled them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too ... -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group ... sports 4. watched Jon Stewart give a kind of bizarre and unrehearsed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught ... labeled the Korean Justin Timberlake and the Korean Usher, is a serious and driven performer (with washboard abs, winsome looks and a Gene Kelly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  .A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in ... ripped out the carbon record of my experimental results and dashed out of ... scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  up a fake science show where Ryan and I would do experiments in our ... officially said goodbye, and I STILL have that post. I'm working on it. Proof ... to know is that I love science (and other things, like bluegrass music

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  , trying to make decisions about this whole college application thing, and he ... ever. He said they're totally lost and can't talk to people and all they know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global ... , education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some ... than threats." To universally accept this concept, of course, would

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  political science and economics), and then go to law school. Actually, surveys ... , one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles a significant caseload in New York City's Family Court, and a third is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007