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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  write a blog post just on a “Portrait of a West Hills Starbucks”). If you ... based on your previous exposure, what kind of knowledge you are best at ... MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... Course 6 classes. Some of you may have to pick a college because it offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  junior year and it's exactly due to the above quote. A lot of my time at ... ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  , so they chose one of the motors at random and installed it in their ... you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open ... some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... were starting - because a few days ago, I got kicked out of my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at ... employment at all!” In math terms, we’d be saying that the effect of the wage ... jobs? We can’t just answer this question by looking at the wages of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  interesting offerings in this year's Spalsh course catalogue. Well, a couple of ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying ... is contributing towards the making of global citizens. 'Global

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer at the end of the entry] Probably the most popular questions asked at ... folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  picture of his favorite computer game offered by Mad Scientist Software. (I ... So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my ... recording of it. Tidbit #2: Professor Yaffe is also an MD. Thus, to prove

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago, I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed ... second face. Look at each of those faces from above and below, and you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  applicants. After several rounds of an extremely rigorous transfer committee process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  the full-size version. I’ve been looking at how changing the title of a ... a lot of research at the intersection of computer vision and ... For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  : The constant value of k, no matter how it is composed at any given ... As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  offers a lot of choices, and navigating those choices is much easier if you ... important, and at the end of the survey indicate that Cultural Affinity is ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  lengths about the strength of our economics department. Back to CPW… at the ... your American Cancer Society. During the event, teams of people gather at ... catch up. First off, our hearts go out to everyone at Virginia Tech. While

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... percentage of foreign students than Tech." At the time, one out of every 15 ... ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  's not. But it's still worth learning, or at least playing around with. Of ... . :) Donating blood or volunteering at a blood drive is one of the easiest and ... . Some of the most important mentors I've had at MIT have never been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on ... It's work week at [annotation note="pronounced 'Xi' like the Greek ... to [annotation note="what sounds like an incredibly draining week of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we ... Probably the most popular questions asked at any information session ... quick summary of what you'll find... Freshman Applications 12,445 Freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007