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Opinion: Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13

Mon, Aug 10 | from MIT Admissions
Still, Trevor Zinser says he was unsure he could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston to sway him to choose MIT over Harvard or Stanford. He says exceptional teachers, particularly science teacher Dave Sherden, worked hard to make classes deep and engaging.

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Princeton Review names MIT a ‘best value’ in higher education

“MIT regularly provides financial aid to between 60 percent and 75 percent of its undergraduates, with an average award reaching nearly $30,000. Of this aid, more than 90 percent is awarded in the form of scholarships,” the report said, noting that at MIT, all scholarships are awarded ba...
Tue, Jan 12 | from web.mit.edu

Opinion: MIT Women's Soccer

Meghan is a freshman, and she is considering majoring in Aerospace Engineering (course 16) or Mechanical Engineering (course 2). She's been playing soccer since she was 4 (!) and is one of two goalies on MIT's team. Her profile on MIT's site also lists plenty of achievements, including lea...
Tue, Nov 24 | from MIT Admissions

Opinion: An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama

Thank you, MIT... I am hugely honored to be here. It's always been a dream of mine to visit the most prestigious school in Cambridge, Massachusetts." Obama began. Cheers. Hold on a second. Certainly the most prestigious school in this part of Cambridge, anyway."
Mon, Nov 23 | from MIT Admissions

Opinion: The Explainer: P vs. NP

Sipser also says that “the P-versus-NP problem has become broadly recognized in the mathematical community as a mathematical question that is fundamental and important and beautiful. I think it has helped bridge the mathematics and computer science communities.”
Wed, Oct 28 | from web.mit.edu

Opinion: The easy way to go green

At last Friday's Energy Night at the MIT Museum, Dr. Keith Collins described his approach to fighting global warming with all the gusto of a really good insurance salesman. But Collins, who graduated from MIT in 1970 with a degree in political science, wasn't actually selling anything. He w...
Mon, Oct 19 | from web.mit.edu

Opinion: Physics in the MIT

Gender imbalance has never influenced my experience at MIT. I'm a bit startled by your (Lulu's?) numbers, since at least half of the Physics majors I've met are women. Granted, I spend a lot of time around Undergraduate Women in Physics, which is perhaps not a representative sample of the ge...
Thu, Oct 1 | from MIT Admissions

Opinion: Product Design, MIT style

The class is called The Product Development Process (or something like that, but who really cares? just call it 2.009 like a normal person) and all of the seniors in Mechanincal Engineering are split into teams, which are identified by color. (So there's Blue, Orange, Silver, Red, and of co...
Sun, Sep 27 | from MIT Admissions

Opinion: A Characterization

I don't like robots. Well, most of them are okay. The ones which for some reason look like people (vain creators perhaps?) creep me the heck out! But I'm sure if anyone is learning a lot from robots, it's my (perhaps 'geekier') peers at MIT....
Fri, Aug 28 | from MIT Admissions

Opinion: A Camera from a Sheet of Fiber

MA Now researchers at MIT have integrated a collection of light sensors into polymer fibers, creating a new type of camera. Yoel Fink, a professor of materials sciences and engineering and the lead researcher on the project, notes that a standard camera ...
Tue, Jun 16 | from MIT Technology Review