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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  about applications for the next round of fellows will be available at 20 ... Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the "20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows." Though actually numbering 24, all of the Fellows

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  people. FRESHMAN YEAR IS OVER! 1/4 of my time here at MIT is officially ... , passed all of my classes, and am ready to start the next part of life at ... Diffusion, that's what's happening now. Finals, all of them, are

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  . Looking at their list of currently sponsored schools, I don't think they ... 11-12. This morning I woke up at 11:10, rolled over and shut off my ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  . Just saw this article/video on CNN of Prof. Cynthia Breazeal, who works at the Media Lab here at MIT. She gave a talk at the TEDWomen ... ... (that was my uber-clever way of saying "Happy Valentine's Day!")

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  My 5.60 Final is tomorrow at 9:00. In just about 18 hours, I will be DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study ... by the amount of spam and youtube videos that are coming into my inbox

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a ... occurs semiannually at MIT. For the past four special days, the sunset was at the perfect angle to beam down the Infinite Corridor. At 4:50 pm

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  during a particularly stressful spoke of the admissions cycle. You guys rock - BIG thanks. Second, there have been a bunch of questions about ... feel free to contact my office by email at finaid(at)mit(dot)edu or by

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where ... halls. You can read more about housing on our page Housing at MIT. Just as important as where you live is what and how you eat. At MIT, you may
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  month, after our first year of having a Maker Portfolio, I gave a talk at ... students at MIT, and next week she and I will be presenting about our Maker Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  Office of Admissions tomorrow before we close for the weekend at 5:00pm EST ... After a week of checking, double checking, and checking ... confirmed your username and password at decisions.mit.edu yet, and you plan to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  ] Woke up at 10 am to continue puzzling. Lots of cities open. Continuing to ... in the basement of E18. HQ will be staying open for at least several ... . Join us digitally at: Go to: http://headquarters.mit.edu Username

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of ... everything you've been dying to ask our head honcho to elizabizzle at mit dot ... have my self-esteem bolstered when pre-frosh recognize me at CPW and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  ridge, where the roof of your mouth is at its highest point. [j] yes ... potion at the back of the roof of your mouth. [k] king - unvoiced [g] gain ... or unrounded by looking at the shape of the lips. A high, back, rounded

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  their teams, a few of us met up at the Carnegie Science Center, saw ... Jamilla Jamison (formerly of our office, now at Harvey Mudd), about how to ... hundreds (and hundreds) of booths at ISEF, speaking with students there. Some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  scholars and will spend two or three years of graduate study at Oxford ... biography reads: Melis N. Anahtar, Bethesda, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  whether or not to come to MIT when really I kind of just want to eat liquid nitrogen ice cream. CPW apparently is one of the best times of the year - as ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior ... stuff I'm studying. A lot of people, even at MIT, don't really ... last fall at the University of Cambridge through CME. (I'd describe

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... graduate school in biology at a time when a lot of my friends from high ... discarded because of my gender -- people at MIT just aren't like that. As long

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th Commencement will be webcast starting at 8 AM ET, with color commentary by our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014