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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  found was unsettling: male professors’ spaces ranged between 3,000 and 6,000 ... professors had more than she did—2,000 square feet. Hopkins shared the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  essentially varying-width pipes and concrete, cost $42,000 USD. A spring ... spring) can cost around $3,000 USD. Our target price for a hand-dug well in Muti is around $6,000 USD, and that’s because a lot of people have been

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  will reach the sun and back 67 to 333 times, or the moon and back 25,000 to 125,000 times (2 meters of DNA in each cell ∙ about 10 to 50 ... the sun and back, or 800,000 kilometers from the Earth to the moon and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  awards ($5,000 - $25,000) to organizations with plans to engage communities ... 25,000ish combined. Something about Google's layout - the way they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  these helped Berman place sixth out of more than 1,000 students in the ... challenging mathematical contests. More than 220,000 students worldwide competed in the first round. Of these, about 10,000 were invited to compete in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ." MIT was Paul's first choice. His scholarship is valued at $50,000 a year ... Cambridge on a full academic scholarship, worth more than $52,000 a year*. M ... enough scholarships to cover the $37,000 annual tuition*. The Wausau East

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  ..haha). 12.000 - Solving Complex Problems (Mission 2011), 9 credits I did a ... specialized courses (12.000 - Solving Complex Problems [fall] and 1 ... , that was a LONG tangent), all of this goes to say that 12.000 is the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  with incomes of $200,000 to $300,000 applying for need-based aid," says ... of $17,000 a month might seem like a lot, but really wasn't. Ms

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  this knee surgery meme. "40,000 knee surgeries per year. 800,000 knee

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  to me.  1 in 10,000. Black squirrels are 1 in 10,000. A .01% chance of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  : Well, I bought some Bitcoin when it was valued at $60,000 and then it dropped down to $30,000, so, there’s that.  But it’s been really helpful to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  parents for 25 days a year for the next 40 years only gives 1,000 more days ... . Looking forward, knowing that I only have around 1,000 more days to spend

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  the algorithm from the back of the book: “[Each book is one of] 109,027,350,432,000 ... at $95,000. Not even “the most historic 1792 letter” by Alexander

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  any time during the past 400,000 years (which included the ice ages ... much waste as a city with around 411,000 residents. Land Use:  About

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  Shenandoah National Park houses 200,000 acres of forests, rocky outcrops, meadows, stunning outlooks, and dramatic waterfalls - so, we weren ... selection, he spent 0.00 minutes reminiscing about anything; he saw me, saw

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  the brightness temperature of the sun at the 21cm wavelength was: 70,000 +/- 140,000 Kelvin. ... In case you don't spot what's wrong with that, let

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  times. In a historical context, Ridley is quite right-- 50,000 years ago, west Asians innovated ovens and bows and arrows, 5,000 years ago

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  also Haiti's leading expert on earthquakes. He told us that there were 20,000 people living at the camp on their campus, or about 4,000 families of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  drive was a success. Of our fairly optimistic goal of $70,000, we fell less than $2,000 shy. There's even still a chance that we will reach the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to ... caves in and joins the team, declaring that he would "quit after $300,000

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008