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  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  word shows up constantly in our language. But perhaps closure is the ... really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... complex issues around dealing with a huge tragedy. Linenthal is Professor of

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the ... the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those ... booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve ... team is the honor of writing the next year's Hunt. For some history ... 're getting closer! 10:45am: A quick walk through Lobby 7, soon to be the site

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

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  The Coop's web site, you can pick up all the MIT swag you need. And don ... It's May 1! Welcome to the MIT Class of 2010! If you have sent back your MIT reply form with an affirmative response, check in here in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out ... spacecrafts along their center axis, but this environment is very different and takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  wanted to create this joint major and how MIT is well-positioned to offer ... -4: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making, which the MIT faculty had just ... year the MIT faculty authorized another new interdisciplinary major

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  at MIT but is expected to be learned on the job. She loved her ... Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental ... site layouts and she was given the freedom to size the elements of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  everyone knows that Lancaster (PA) is the best site*. The classes I took were ... impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this ... those in high school, since there's an entire section on the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  may find that MIT is the perfect match for you as well. I am referring ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT is where they wanted to be, others were less certain. Some may even

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

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  'm happy to report that MIT is nothing like that. Some of my closest friends ... is an important fact that I feel the need to clarify: MIT Admissions is ... aid, or that there are no rich kids at MIT. What I am trying to say is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  other countries, and credit is awarded upon return to MIT. As I recall ... graduation requirements by spending time abroad. One such class is 11 ... the Euro. This spring, the class is heading to Amsterdam, and I think I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that ... the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold ... ...and turned it down to come to MIT An ISEF Engineer Award Winner from rural

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... Hollis resident who is interning at Google this summer and will attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  Those of you who are savvy surfers of this site will note that our ... MIT students (and alums, if any feel like weighing in!) will comment in ... think make good matches to the undergraduate culture of MIT - academic

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... student/NIH researcher, DC-area attorney, MIT physics instructor, engineer ... .101: Chinese I site. The groom requested a Red Sox update during the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  is MIT's flagship junior year abroad program, allowing MIT students to ... exchange is a great reason to go to MIT, whether or not you plan on studying ... Here's the long-awaited guest blog entry on the Cambridge-MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  having trouble using our site on mobile devices because the navbar and first blog weren't clickable. The upshot is that our CDN was for some ... application information and stuff, which is probably more useful than not being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for the class I was teaching. Which, by the way, is not a bad final project ... the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), based at the MIT Media Lab. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  Center, implemented by the Registrar and IS&T, and promoted by the MIT ... of the political process and we believe that MIT TurboVote is one of ... tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  ’t get to any sites that ended with .mit.edu whereas if you were on your laptop trying to use the MIT network, you couldn’t get to any sites that ... activist Aaron Swartz, the hacker group Anonymous allegedly attacked the MIT

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013