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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings ... (MOOC) provider, created by MIT and Harvard and used by over 70 educational institutions. Now MIT is implementing the latest educational

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... possible and set aside time during our weekend to have fun CPW events like

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In ... nerds. You start with a soup of universally strong math backgrounds, then toss in a couple hundred ultra math nerds, and a couple hundred more

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  Summer is well under way, and no child’s vacation is complete without ... , doing arts and crafts, swimming in a lake- summer camp gives kids an ... University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  Turkey's development lagged that of the United States and other ... contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date ... during a tumultuous period of economic crises and political unrest, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  [by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... National Conclave (NATCON), was hosted in Chicago, IL this year and was

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  education to the public through longstanding institutions like OCW and MITx ... media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with some of my advisees and helping them pick their classes. A number of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... nanotechnology are Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering (Courses 2, 20, and 3) - but Physics (Course 8) and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  since it seemed low-commitment and beneficial, so I decided to join. I ... doing them and felt that they were the most helpful part of the course! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  chronicle this week's adventures and realized that I was about to write a blog entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... , not Hemingway's novella. I tried to split The Old Man and the Sea into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  undergraduates at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, was first used ... if you want a ring, too (provided you live in the United States and ... evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home. Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where I am working in the National Human Genome Research Institute. More

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

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  ride through 33-degree sleet and rain en route to Colorado Springs for ... and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... final project state machine draft, top left. 6.031 exam crib sheet, top

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  case, universities) subsidize something that they are offering for free ... offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... the good, and a proportion lower than the social optimum will get the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  overrated and I think people should choose a different universe to immerse ... there is out there in the world. I read into my zodiac and stuff, not necessarily believing it, but just seeing if I relate. (I'm an Aquarius and a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  breakdancing competition at Tufts University and my little venture to Chinatown ... to trek over to Tufts University and catch a sweet breakdancing ... Chinatown (and I live in Minneapolis, the state's epicenter), so I HAD to make

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  than lolcats...hopefully. This year's theme is poverty, and a couple of ... : Wow, great examples, Cristen and Laura, thanks so much for posting those. I visited MIT last month, and since then (even more than before), it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  Institute of MIT and Harvard was headed up by David Reich (also an assistant ... , startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a ... From Chimps?The split between the human and chimpanzee lineages may have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  on an extremely awesome and extremely top secret project: MIT: The ... and built by current MIT freshman Victor Hung '14, with music by ... education (burritos, roller coasters, and such) from the comfort of their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  undergrad and masters' degrees in 5 years. Actually, MIT is the top graduate ... student's career in certain fields to get bachelors and masters degrees from ... -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005