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Blog / Academics & Research
Tomorrow is MacVicar day! Tomorrow is MacVicar day. See poster presentations by MIT students who have made an impact…
showcases student research in our labs here on campus and in the field worldwide. It should be an exciting celebration of student achievements in ... programs. UROP & Beyond: MIT Students in the Lab and In the World Friday -
Blog / Academics & Research
Randomness
Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon ... composition due in nine hours that has me adopting the identity of someone living in a Francophone country, describing my work, my environment, my -
Blog / Admissions
Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.
After a long vacation in Southeast Asia, I'll be officially back in ... trip to Florida starts in less than a month! Forthcoming blog entries will include a brief recap of my time in Asia, a Questions Omnibus, a -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).
& Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the ... from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a ... &A, will run about 90 minutes. You can RSVP at brownmityale.org. In addition -
Blog / Academics & Research
Off to Zambia
31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which is in the northeast corner of the nation. Last January's D -
Blog / Events
Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa
In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... stayed mostly in the range of 60-75% cocoa, and had two insanely -
Blog / Life after MIT
These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?
, majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006 ... went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and ... in developmental neurobiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. I’ve been -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)
In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today about the current weather and the sudden drop in temperature from last week, he gently reminded me, "You chose to live here in Massachusetts -
Blog / MISTI
The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering
In 2011, MIT Mechanical Engineering students went through MISTI to ... in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at Iberdrola in Spain; conduct experimental investigations of rheological -
Blog / MISTI
Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind
because there are many more internship opportunities there in my major - materials engineering - than in any other MISTI program. I encourage all students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of -
Blog / MIT Life
It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.
any salmonella bacteria that might grow in it. Thus, you can actually ... naked in the Z Center. But yesterday I saw another professor naked in the ... 't say anything like, "Hi Professor, I really enjoyed your class in -
Blog / Admissions
Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.
up in April (sign up now)! Since I know you just can’t wait to meet ... opportunities for Admitted Students coming up in cities around the globe within ... around the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent
Occasionally as I lie in bed at night puzzling over the hecticness ... math (courses 8 & 18). He's in my fraternity- Sigma Chi- so we live together in our chapter house on Beacon Street on the Boston side of the -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (
lists, but one of them ranked the top 20 metropolitan areas in the United States in order of the percentage of workers in STEM (Science, Technology ... Bay. In second place was Boulder, Colorado. (Not) surprisingly -
Blog / MIT Life
The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…
When I was in high school one of the most influential non ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to ... human factors in what we bring to and need from our work. The one story -
Blog / Life after MIT
Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.
Bergen Record wrote: Nobody cuts Mr. Goodman's class. In Robert Goodman ... class a cool place. In recognition, he's been selected as the New Jersey ... graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 with a bachelor -
Blog / Academics & Research
The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*
successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... is getting his master's in course 6 (EECS) in June, and has accepted a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets
over the school year and that we stored in our memory mushroom. Here are the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them! As we described in those posts, memory mushroom is what we named this