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  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and ... Stephen Dubner, he received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994. His

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  decision deadlines for many colleges, including MIT, are fast approaching, so ... . Already, I find myself missing Boston and MIT, and I'm looking forward to ... fit various classes and how best to shape my time at MIT to fulfill

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... -nighter. Before coming to MIT, I told myself that I wouldn't pull an all-nighter. I

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... best decision for them once MIT announced its plans for the fall. On July 7th, MIT released those plans, and allowed incoming first

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  , because part of being an adult is Doing It Anyway. After the exam, I ... . 20.110 (twenty-one-ten) is the class known in regular people English as "Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems." This class is hard on me not because the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  assessment.” What it boils down to is an analysis on the current state of ... is so integral to the present and future of the world, especially the ... . The phenomenon is called Campbell’s Law, and it states that the more any

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  -time favorite answers were: [Q: What is your race?] “I guess I’m Caucasian. I ... '?] “Whatever -- anywhere the wind blows is cool” In other news: one of the preferred meats on this island is spam -- restaurants have as many entrees

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... matter what your major is, you have to get credit for 8.01 (Physics 1), 8 ... requirement is more complicated than that, but we won't get distracted by that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  day, which she analyzed by hand, because she was (and is) a beast. A ... is signal from sources a) here on Earth, that interfere with what ... telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  ’t really the story of places, as much as it is the story of us. But when you ... picked a fight with me. This bruise on my head is because of him. This ... immediately, Hassan Adamu is expelled from Nigerian Turkish International

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  of my system first. i’ll preface it by saying that this is my very ... ="where i spent all my time"]midtown manhattan[/annotation] is the epitome of ... is a set of massive advertisement billboards.  i dislike that the big

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  eclipse, this year is also a [annotation note="when the Sun is at its most ... wind is whistling if you listen there's the harbor, don't you miss it ————— walking, walking, slowly walking, uphill, downhill, rarely talking sun is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  how happy and in awe I am. Logically, I’ve known that this city is ... . One of the greatest joys, I think, is to have the mundane turn beautiful ... ="225"] my makeshift desk (there's an actual desk, but the view is too

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  because apparently my immune system is taking a little vacation right now ... time here is at like 10:30 a.m. every morning (random much?), where line ... eavesdropped or anything. 4. Cute babies come here. A lot. 5. This Starbucks is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is ... -related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... charged a lab fee ...but oh well, a sketchbook is a sketchbook!!! :P) The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary language, here is the official statement about what we require: SAT Reasoning ... more questions, here is a quick FAQ to provide some more answers. I hope

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all ... more frequent ^^”). What I actually want to talk about today is really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... he added, "The cost of sequencing is dropping enough that this is no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  alarm. 11:28 — This alarm is louder. I start blinking. 11:29 — Another ... totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... doesn’t get stolen. In the darkness, I hear whispering sounds. Is it just

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2028. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023