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  New York, New York

  

  New York Stock Exchange (maybe I'll see fellow MIT alum and NYSE CEO ... conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  chances of ever entering an American university, and assisted an elderly man ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... Tso's chicken and my friends' 麻婆豆腐 ("ma po dou fu”) or my birthday party

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  me and dancing at graduation with a diploma in each hand! ... ) tomorrow, and Professor Bell announced that there would be no new material ... ), so I'm not going tomorrow. Which means that 7.27 (human disease) and 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  Happy New Year, everyone! 2016 has been shuttered into the past, and ... : humanitarian crisis, deeply divisive politics and high-profile incidents of ... , it just means that Netflix is about to add some new TV shows and movies

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students ... sophomores and freshmen have never experienced "normal" campus life, and the ... 'd go to events to meet new people whenever possible and seize every

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and before that at the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  concept, as Luke explains that universities like MIT, Stanford and Carnegie ... educational and rehabilitative game designed to help developmentally disabled ... stainless steel and carbon fiber. They’re all past products innovated by MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  (?#@^&*!!!), all kinds of awesome and interesting things are going on ... the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and never written, and about 3 weeks between the time I'm done with work and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a founding member of the McGovern Institute. She joined the MIT ... 1980, and her Ph.D. in Course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences), also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  , and with this new approach to cross-institutional classes, we were able ... 22-page piece of state model legislation (and many, many more pages of ... privacy and security of individuals, States should adopt this model

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Baltimore and stopping in Harrisburg, State College, and Altoona. The bus is ... building. There are palm trees, and though it is overcast and colder than it ... semester: a Monday, a Tuesday, and another Monday and Tuesday. Monday

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  dudes kicked lots of people into wells. And then there's this guy: As ... working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the Green Building - then you know the world's about to end. Yes, ladies and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed ... third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second to introduce myself. And because I'm bad at narrating my life, we'll go

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  deception lubricates the societal wheels of Ferrante's universe and make it ... Rooney and someone asked me what it was about. I said that I wasn't sure ... and I still don't know if I know what it's about. This is a long

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  use MISTI 2.0 as an opportunity to return to my host institute and ... internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. My

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  and Planning), and a young woman who had studied at the University of ... States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which the boys’ successes get recognized and their talents get directed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  economic implications. The program offers a master's degree and undergraduate ... the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media" (Cornell University Press), even those trying "faithfully" to represent Shakespeare

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  stocks up and hibernates when the weather goes a degree below 60F, so I don ... state, to skirt the emotional fatigue and the crushing helplessness that ... return offer after you graduate, and hopefully sponsor your H1B visa. All

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  undergraduate degree program at another institution. Shammi wrote, "dear matt, how ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to ... rejected if they apply again ,,, and another question is what is MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  (defining input and state variables) and write directions that are ... to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010