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• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  :00 am alarm seemed just way to early) I arrived in Seattle in time to go ... enjoy their interviews each year and they were out in force that night working with the staff members in attendance to check in the students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or ... pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior ... faculty member or research staff person) agree upon. But in any case, it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  There is a whiteboard in Ben's office which was apparently once used ... . It is now covered in graffiti such as witty poetry and linear algebra ... is hard you're all in it together with your classmates. Then you will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  Arthur Genius Grant in 2001, hence the reused genius crack above. She's my ... in Miami when she released her first novel, Getting Mother's Body. It's always great to meet and talk with someone who is not only successful in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  our community. Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in ... have been schooled in the home and under the umbrella of larger ... applicants we have admitted in the past. One quality that we look for in all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I ... , video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they ... solidified. (While previous blogging experience is paramount in our selection ... , there seems to be more interest in the program this year than ever before

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody today following a brutal hazing incident in which one robot remains missing and two others are in critical condition with extensive circuitry

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Pennyslvania leads the country in mushroom production, supplying 45% of the nation's mushrooms. California, in second place, provides only 18%. Sam's Mom has informed me that I have a then/than error in one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Milk-producing glands in mammals actually evolved from sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to ... arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  first environmentally advanced apartment building in the US. The Solaire is situated in Tribeca, right on the Hudson River. It is pretty ... its eco-friendliness. In addition to photovoltaic panels, the building

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  The Dick Van Dyke Show called "The Night The Roof Fell In" where the same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and their pet fish. In this case, whereas Mitra has provided a professional

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... swimmingly; for example, we had a great discussion in 7.31 (Current Topics in ... basically one of the gods of stem cell research. The man is a pioneer in his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  Yesterday, I wrote, "I'll be back in the office tomorrow, assisting ... abnormally high winds and bad weather in the northeast, my flight had been cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  was always much more fun—everyone in my living community is amazing, we ... from my floor showed up to parties in one screaming orange horde and danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world, we are building on MIT’s established leadership in these fields to ... , research and innovation, and to prepare our students to lead in every domain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  about and look at science? 21. Even if you don't want to major in science ... semester of biology, 2 electives in science, and 1 lab course? 1211. Do you ... by far in high school was AP English Literature. When our Lit teacher

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  [EDIT: It has been noted that the photos in this entry don't show up in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap-as-anything-in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  for this paper taught me a lot about a subject that is central in many ... not match up with what she envisions in her mind. It takes her more time ... has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman ... other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019