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• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... sleepless, as I try to keep up with all of the readings and do all of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My ... instead. (That made a lot of sense.) The reality of it all was I got tired very easily and was running out of time to do the other things that

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  proud of the class we've admitted. The predominant feeling, however, is sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful ... it, but I never do. We'll spend the next week preparing all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I ... ? But she continues, and clarifies that she expects the rest of her ... could reasonably classify as the middle of nowhere, way at the end of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... ” made of other types of cells to faithfully recreate the organs ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... electricity. I guess the reason that robots are first thought of as human, as ... with them — to replace the labor of a person, but still accomplish a task

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away before I move away from the East Coast for a while. I saw two Broadway

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... as jobs at MIT being counted as part of the award; basically stuff I ... To Me. I am self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my writing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  water”). The Mosquito Coast on the east side of Nicaragua/Honduras is ... I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... is studying, is that it's the opposite of the kind of learning that MIT

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  (we cover the equivalent of one week in normal semester schedule every day). 496. Other than the classes, there's plenty of time every day to ... sense of the daily newspaper, the subway announcements, and having 2-hour

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity ... out from the beginning. Personally, I've gotten a lot out of my

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend reading the profile of transfer student Ian McKay featured on the MIT homepage today. It ... applicants. While the selection process has not completed, we anticipate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last ... the graduate version would definitely be offered, I took the class on Jr ... My grades for the semester so far: This should keep me motivated

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  During our Independent Activities Period (IAP), essentially most of January -- the intermediate period between winter break and the spring semester -- numerous for-credit classes are on offer. The full first semester

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that ... are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it ... the meantime, take this picture of a drawing of a Slowpoke as a token of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that ... at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 ... explain poetry using calculus. It would take the human component out of it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... , a snapshot of the dinner table (me, my mom, and my three younger ... faculty and staff from all around MIT help members of the community practice

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... proportion of people in the population who have the vaccine, each individual

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005