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• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  , microstructure of stock exchanges and initial public offerings. Her current ... Business Schools. Dr. Aggarwal's expertise is in the areas of initial public ... School of Management where she earned her Ph.D. and was a Research

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree ... this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  different type of technology." "I have a few product designs on the market now ... describing the mission of MIT. "Every school has a different mission on Earth ... 's your favorite part of your job?" President Hockfield: "You. The students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  offered that meet a few of the HASS requirements. Terrascope is a bit different from the rest of the FLCs in that what they offer is less about ... "Fundamentals of Computational Media Design" and "Introduction to Doing Research

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  -Hazen who got a 35 on her ACT but was afraid of applying to a school so far ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... think, learning from a friend that my high school robotics coach, Neil

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  /Fischer/Weitzner's Foundations of Internet Policy, both also offered this fall). Here's our course ... -to-End' in the Design of the Internet," Social Studies of Science (2006 ... of the other courses offered in CMS/W & SHASS; in fact, probably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  like their schools would, roommates that probably had a weird habit of ... don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... : Here's a close-up of my design, so you can read the text: [As a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... . Since graduation, I’ve been pursuing the slow boat of academic science — I went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements ... . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  From The New York Times (check out the awesome photo of Paul, Jess, and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN ... fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn't a result of sleep

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  example, I think a lot of schools abroad don't realize that MIT is a ... students through a school contest. It is reported to have the paws of a ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  . Yes, these are the musings of someone who was out of school for a while ... Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... . Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design Competition) - ( obviously an infintesimal of Prof. Schrock's research!) I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  will have to take for the degree. 4.111 basically introduces design and ... projects responding to tasks somewhere along the lines of “design a space for ... track in American schools. I had learned some basic biology in 6th grade

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit ... require you to travel to the school itself. MD-only programs have one day of ... of recommendation and proceed to your personal statement, where you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  effectively. In the 19th century, a group of secondary school educators ... . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of

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

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  weeks at the end of the school year to see my family, and then I went down ... offer with a pretty number. Of who I would become if I accepted. People ... I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022