Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  Practice, which offers real-world technology cases and projects from partner ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending Spring 2018 abroad, especially because Switzerland and chocolate. My

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  of Mark Sellke '18, Bobby Shen '17, and David Yang '17. The Putnam Fellows from MIT are David Yang '17 and Yunkun Zhou '19. Maybe you've heard ... running the AMC, AIME, USAJMO, and USAMO high-school math contests

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  -working, and kept to himself.” name. year. dorm. hall. home state. what an ... stranger to the blogs), and she has kindly allowed me to share them. I think ... week has been really tough and really strange for everyone on campus, and

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  into the world, I know, but you might miss home and this general state of ... semester begins Tuesday, and so will begin the class I’ve been diligently preparing for all IAP--6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  country, and then a far-off state. Now I’m here, and it’s so much better ... doing homework with them and talking until too late. It’s about the way the brain revs and pushes onward through a Problem Set. The feeling

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  picked up a brown paper bag with a grilled chicken sandwich, and sat down ... engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany ... talked at the table. we talked about how to build community and care for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , practitioners, and students passionate about social enterprise. In our 17th year ... Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to ... top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  /explanation/clarification section which meets outside lecture, and often the person teaching the ... .60 recitation meets twice a week in a different classroom and is taught by a ... perspectives on the lecture material. (And, ahem, graduate students are more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  .) He immediately stated that it was a good program and that he saw it ... purified and frozen to transform it into a liquefied state so it can be ... goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  professors from University of Miami, and got a positive response back from one ... MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do ... our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  So it's pretty interesting if you take a step back and look at your life for a second. Whether you're a current senior and getting excited for CPW, a current undergrad and getting excited for CPW, or a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Introduction to the Institute and serves a first introduction (or second, after ... Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as ... and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  " Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute's culture of entrepreneurship. MIT students (and professors!) don't just want to learn about science and technology -- we want to apply our knowledge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  both internal and external to the Institute. :-) That said, let's see ... to show the typical setup, furniture, and layout of a mix of rooms -- in the third post, I will show presently occupied and "lived

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  Island, Queens, Northern Virginia, Suburban Maryland, and Baltimore. Next up: the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area, starting Sunday. I forced Ben to go to 3.091 (Intro Chemistry, solid state version) today, to see for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  who has shopped for Consumer Electronics on Amazon and offers me deals ... a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  this job, do it regularly, and do it well. Biography City, State ... upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if you feel you can make a ... decade, both within and without our office, from an heritage monoculture of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of ... references and important concepts in my life, I found the units that defined my ... the length of a FIRST Robotics' Build Season, to the state of political

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged ... handle him or not. A worldly man, he has been everywhere and is from ... and watching kung fu." Points if you can guess the movie allusion

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  colleges but by reference-letter shopping instead and using more flattering ... students living abroad who will receive packages from MIT and posted the method to this blog (since deleted) and other sites. Others have posted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005