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• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  about things I was curious about and didn't understand. I was immersed in ... questions don't hesitate to post them in the comments! I'll be happy to talk

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  Club doesn’t impress MIT at all. They want to see commitment, dedication ... just can’t turn down a good opportunity to learn (and have fun!) So

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  he went to Harvard for his undergraduate economics degree and didn't ... to Professor Levitt -- the "Economists do it with models" t-shirt.

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  blog didn't give off quite the same sarcastic vibe that I usually exude ... street to the Kendall/MIT T station around 1:45 and easily made it to Logan

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  met with looks of disbelief. People generally can’t seem to wrap their ... . Steitz said. …. If mentors don’t present themselves, women may have to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... place that I don't like very much, or we could go to Rosa, where they have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  The only course that comes remotely close to being as badass as aero/astro is nuclear engineering and even they don't have jet engines. If you ... snapshot of it in orbit: It didn't do so hot on the re-entry... we lost 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  's administration doesn't like it if you hack the door locks or the strike plates ... shell out millions for a kid's science-fiction fantasy wasn't easy. After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  disorders. It's kids who just feel like they can't handle everything they ... don't get into their imagination enough," Jones says. Her remedy: "Let

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best ... International Olympiad in Informatics. This year's first contest doesn't begin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  resident who attends Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass. He won't really get to ... specialty is quality assurance. "They won't let interns touch any of the

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

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  to have won the Morikami scholarship." "I didn't realize how much it ... pneumonia. "I couldn't understand why," Kubber said. "I thought they had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  , many of us couldn't wait until our graduation day," he said. "Now that ... at MIT. "I found that the admissions results didn't depend on how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  college. Other amenities weren't really important to me, but some things did ... that that's it; I actually don't think I've recycled the brochures I got

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  trail and probably didn't expect the hack to be as successful as it was ... program running at a time so we don't kill the server again." Meanwhile

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  . This isn't something you want to look into right now, but it's useful to ... ://wserv.mit.edu:444/fcgi-bin/lc for this, and don't sign up for a Mailman list -- that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  said it wasn't a good school for premeds. In some cases, this is ... doesn't have grade inflation like many other universities (I've heard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  networks. Michael said: "Hacking per se doesn't get you in trouble -- being ... it's not been true that you don't get in trouble unless your hack is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  . (Strictly speaking, they don't even have to declare then; it's possible to be ... Center and continued on my merry way. It wasn't until IAP of my sophomore

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet ... , and tiramisu. Unfortunately, I don't think the class is being offered

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005