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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  class "Sex and the Institute" watch a pair of half-hour episodes, each ... . Check them out! Here are a few highlights: 2.007: Design and Manufacturing I Prof. Alex Slocum Develops students' competence and self

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... world these days. Mention eating, and people say 'cholesterol.' Mention

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My ... I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a double minor in Biomedical Engineering and Economics. Who does that

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  Hi, I'm your second new blogger, there's Keri, and then there's me ... basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in ... I was 8, and then to several other places before settling down in New

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  5, 2005 Smith's ''genius" for designing simple and affordable ... . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars or bombs," said Smith. ''I don't drive a car, and I don't kill people

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  National Gallery (East Wing designed by MIT alum I.M. Pei) and maybe the ... how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My ... , and any supplemental materials helping us to understand those grades are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  anxious students and family members who are going through the college application season, and are either trying to vibe out whether they want to apply to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  , East Campus, and Senior House) dorms plus Burton Conner allow students to paint their rooms. Other modifications, such as lofts, and I suppose ... TV and fridge, sure- you're welcome to put whatever you'd like into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the Graduate School greatly exceeds the number which can be accommodated and it ... appreciate your interest in MIT and sincerely hope that you may be able to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, and mailed to adMITs, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  curve and certainly looks real enough - if decidedly tricky to make. Dr ... Institute of Technology, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of ... to the longstanding "single-cut" problem and the "carpenter's rule

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  road with admissions officers from Yale and Brown meeting with students, parents, and guidance counselors in the Mid-Atlantic states. Currently, I ... , the Mountain states, and the Midwest -- look for more information soon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  cheese board and 70 degree weather [carousel image1="100280" image2 ... guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and ... something sturdy enough for my laptop and all of its accessories–and something

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

   another new class called 21H.000 History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics. It meets every Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities ... Last week, I blogged about 7.00: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  tuition and fees for 2007-2008 and has budgeted an additional $7 million for ... needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding ... circumstances," Hockfield said. Tuition and fees for the upcoming academic year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  motorcyclists, and people who talk about tarot and spellcasting, and university ... you grew up here, a hardness and a hardiness to everything that lives here: the gila monster, its mottled orange and black skin warning of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  Institutes of Health (NIH) to several judges and Harvard Medical School faculty ... rich men reclining on comfy couches while drinking and battling wits. The ... England Science Symposium featured oral presentations and posters from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  -sets, and I assumed institutions operated in the interest of the people they ... , I joined that same institute as a PhD student and shortly afterward, a ... When Petey messaged the blogger alums about coming back and posting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  life, the universe, and everything -- my email's still mollieb at mit dot ... Since I start grad school orientation tomorrow, and tomorrow is ... 've really enjoyed the past fourteen months, and I'm so glad I got the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  all the posts from the beginning, and also check out the student blogs: Mitra, Kevin, and Allison. Tomorrow, the entire admissions staff will ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004