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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... finals (8.04 and 8.044) standing between me and two MIT degrees. I don ... research. I'm sure all of you know by now about MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  answered a lot of questions, but she also got a lot of questions, and other ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real ... of pranks. Not all pranks are hacks. Not all hacking is pulling hacks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  is 221 feet at a 75-degree angle. It reaches speeds of 77 miles per ... before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... before we left to go take some pictures. Apparently, Lord Voldemort (of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... felt. The message of "being" vs. "doing," quality over quantity, and ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  degree of arbitrariness to the numbers that demarcate and discretize the ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  event coordinated by Clover Food Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies ... , because Michael covered it fantastically. That's the outside of Clover Food Lab. And this is the inside. Clover Food Lab, which grew out of a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to offer, although it does mean that people sometimes look at me funny as I ... lots of ceebujen (fish and rice). And I got to film it all happening

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... Schmill Dean of Admssions Now is no time to despair! Lucky for us, we

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

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  Symphony Hall, so if you were to use your free College Card courtesy of Arts ... dinner, some of us went to JP Licks for some ice cream. (This summer I have eaten ice cream at least 5 days of every week. I have an addiction

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  to attend this institution. You must be willing to be accepting of why ... about August yet. If that doesn’t give you an indication of how fast time ... . You’d think it's an insane amount of time to be doing this, but it’s not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  definitely don't provide the perspective of the whole Institute, and I'm sure ... I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have ... perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... to a vocational high school to study information technology. There I ... school ran out of vouchers to take these exams so I never got certified but

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  . However, this year, we saw an unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of ... not be able to offer them admission. At that point, we will consider our ... students this year for the Class of 2016. I know many of you have been

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at ... little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... its name is Grease Lightning. Its empty mass is 0.1kg and coefficient of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  -- oftentimes there aren't so many degrees of separation between people. ... Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... , “Do you want to see this?” “Yes, I do.” During the fall of my senior

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011