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  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on ... /shows/fundraisers, as well as all kinds of junk from fellow students who want to share

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  uninteresting; I ended up spending a lot of time out of school that year, drawing ... art school instead of MIT”. My art teacher, the mentor I found in the ... I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  mechanical engineering class offered in the spring in which we design and build ... . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and currently Design Partner ... successfully pursued the intersection of technology and design. After the ... to pursue design in an engineering/tech-centered school. His response

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... are grad school in Aeronautics/Astronautics and hopefully a couple of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  I like? Can the size of the smaller school offer a more supportive ... of APs you should take. If your school offers AP calculus, we hope you ... not accelerated in any way (fault of the high school). In addition, i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... ... try the Kickboxing PE Class Looking for History of Magic, try: 21A.211 ... Introduction to Astronomy Looking for Care of Magical Creatures, try 21H.909

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  : School of Engineering first, School of Science nearly last. Each individual ... train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to ... across the front of the student center and almost all the way to Mass Ave

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  history, establishing, among other things, the School of Humanities, Arts ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of ... the legendary Debbie Douglas, director of collections at the MIT Museum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  ” informs the design of legs. “legs” is a broad term here, including wheels ... degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on sale”, someone who took advantage of the resources of my school to make

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  were some folks there who had made a bunch of their own designs and then milled them out of wood, and who were open sourcing their designs to get ... one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  outreach programs under the School of Engineering at MIT for underrepresented ... science and engineering experiences to over 3,000 middle and high school students free of charge.  
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a ... lined up properly for the precession (first by school (e.g. Engineering ... am: Ah, the bond of the brass rat: At 9:45ish, we began to leave

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior ... I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  picture of his favorite computer game offered by Mad Scientist Software. (I ... So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my ... recording of it. Tidbit #2: Professor Yaffe is also an MD. Thus, to prove

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... MIT, and we have offered early admission to 656. These students hail from more than 500 high schools scattered across the globe, from Alaska

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is NEET?

  NEET is a collaborative and project-based academic program from the School of Engineering. The program aims to educate young engineers to build ... personal and interpersonal skills. Students will get an SB degree from the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing ... , meaning I’ve finished the first two years of medical school (in the Harvard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  manifesting it in reality. Steve Jobs personally approved the design of the ... every IC that could be knocked out of the design. Jobs brought Woz the ... was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011