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• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting things to come from this group in terms of information is the international ... you might imagine, MIT is near the top in terms of total money awarded

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  offers and picked the other guy. After all, most of the professors are ... ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... 'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... Sun Microsystems, inventor of the spanning tree algorithm (!). Check ... is posing as a "spanning tree") The "Mother Of The Internet' Puzzle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an ... while listening to Kelis under a sign labeled "THE YARD". I have all of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  .k.a. must-do things: biking along the coast of Spain, taking a sunset train to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... – some of the routes promised clear signage and well-maintained roads. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be totally honest, the major reason I was freaking out about the loss of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  - Dread…knowing that January is the coldest month of the year, with an average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... of the warm spell by being outside as much as possible. I saw a group

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  Globe (free registration required) which gives a good overview of the ... change for the Class of 2010 this summer (perhaps July?). The paper ... visit:(...." Yali, there's a bunch of stuff you should check out. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  the rest of the East Coast, with the Blizzard of 2009. This snowstorm ... Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  during the summer to bike down the entire Western coast of the US, from ... , the current state of my life and psyche, and the existence of God ... 've forgotten everything but the very basics of integration and derivation. Can I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying ... costs of running an admissions office are vast, and the application fee

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train ... MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the ... sunshine, crackling fireplaces, and pie. Mmm, pie. Here is a picture of ... buses arrived in a cloud of dust and we stormed the orchard, wielding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  walked along the Charles River, winter sunshine warm atop our heads, as I ... of the walk from Hayden Library to the intersection between ... . In the last week of January, I visited my younger brother in Los

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  in his 2004 Academy Award-winning film "Eternal Sunshine of the ... under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can my school counselor find helpful information?

  Thank you for all of the good work you do for our awesome applicants ... all of the different requirements for so many students and schools. We offer specific advice for educators here. We hope it helps!
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017