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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Verona City, USA. The university in the town is Montague State University ... Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for ... Sherlock). Lydia: Okay. Who are you and what are you doing in my house

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an acronym for that: DHLB FPOP ... neat historical sites in Boston. I signed up for this FPOP because I ... independent country, and, in the process, to create a pretty awesome place for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  sophomore year, and I had a job offer in hand by mid-November. I didn't really ... put a lot of stress on myself for not having a job offer in hand. Let ... About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  , some say in ice..." What will be the final destiny of the Universe ... expansion will continue to speed up the Universe will end in ice. The ... This morning, MIT alum Adam Riess '92 won the Nobel Prize in Physics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best ... beloved in some MIT circles, and abhorred in others. The East Campus Twitter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  work he has done in that semester at the university?" If you have enrolled at another university in a degree-seeking program, you can only ... country the SAT2 subject tests is only offered in January. Should i just

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of the way around the world from my home in the States, the Observatory was ... of Neptune. Arago's telescope is seen on the roof just to the left in

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  enrolled in it. (I'd like to casually mention that Old English was offered at ... Authors): Old English and Beowulf hwæt ƿe gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  such events as the University of Missouri incidents in November ... solving problems in new ways, across many disciplines. Innovation means ... theme: the United States’ 2016 election, police brutality, progress in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  I answer your lingering questions left in the comments. So if you ask a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within ... semester classes, so I quickly ran out of room there (and maybe in a couple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york ... universe, and yet is filled with bleak existential thoughts. if you've seen ... project in a while with a few other people, and already we've spawned many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  that use of the NBC Universal Property or Properties in the manner ... quote I used in my personal blog was "One of my favorite items is a ... computer in your area of responsibility). IP Address: 18.247.6.191 Hostname

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  in Tianjin--they're universally brand new, and all enormous ... Scholarships to cover students who enroll in Chinese universities for degree or ... next year I'll spend at Peking University, funded by the Chinese

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members protested “the militarization of university research,” and in ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did ... get one offer (from a water company, actually) in the first month after ... interviewing. Finally, I was offered 3 different positions, all in robotics

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  , luckiest, place in the universe!** I was wondering if you would know the ... poorly in classes, MIT can rescind your offer of admissions.(In fact, many ... email me and I'll get to it when I can. Please put "Question about MIT" in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea ... they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have students write their thoughts about life in college in blogs. These honest
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  Students participating in dual enrollment programs or taking college-level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some ... happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020