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  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to ... Dash is an event specifically designed for high school students and is held ... will engineer and design their contraption within the constraints of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• 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 ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... with a cute story about his first day of grad school at MIT. He told us ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  . Chun Integration of design, engineering, and management disciplines and practices for analysis and design of manufacturing enterprises. Emphasis is on ... manufacturing systems. Group project requires design and fabrication of parts

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at ... ), Burchards is designed to be an "intellectual feast of the greatest minds in ... in many of my old blogs, but I never wrote about it in a single place

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... program designed specifically for engineers, or is there really a difference

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  15.27182 – Lecture Anatomy 101 Prereq: None, Units: 1-0-1, Lecture: M EVE (11 PM-midnight) (iHouse), NO FINAL

  

  Analysis of Lecture Seating. Offered Fall term only. Happy Thanksgiving ... Practical introduction to the theory of lecture seating. Revolves mainly around the Oasis Model of Lecture Seating, along with practical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a 7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition(FRC) Team 1710

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  School, in Deerfield, Ill., says a member of the 2006 graduating class was ... Trier High School, in Winnetka, Ill., tells of visiting a small liberal ... School who will attend Brown University in the fall, recalls a tour of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  know that some students will accept our offer of admission while ... I'm kind of confused - if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble ... to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... necessarily offering clarification or description of any kind. Like a medieval ... documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern ... let her name me) trusted me enough to design some of her wedding ... embarrassing well-what-do-we-have-here pose in front of a nonsensical slide that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  , I transferred from my local public school of 800+ students to a ... science in high school, and a lot of my best friends are people I've met ... solution she offers is simple: "Why can't you be a combination of all of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to decide if a given set of two majors is feasible, rather than setting out a ... at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes Scholar. This year's list of winners includes not one but two awesome MIT ... biographies of Alia and Matt from RhodesScholar.org (links mine), followed by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  Institute of Tech, Technology, is a good technical school. Math and science ... And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  me three classes away from a chem degree. Regardless of what anyone may ... intention of pursuing a dual degree said this: "Were you insane?" Maybe I am ... anything new. I bought the camera to celebrate the end of my dual degree

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  a row, you get kicked out of the school." (me: lol) 5:13 to 5 ... because MIT is so science-focused, only a couple of schools have applicants ... design the class ring. Because of this, all of them are different." (me: in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  are concerned, MIT was in the 1980s, as it is now, a school that offers ... applications after spending much of last week reading international applications ... , as I write this entry, I'm also half-watching one of my ten favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005