Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.
Located in Cambridge Massachusettes, the Massachusettes Institute of Technology is a private research facility that is focused on teaching and research grounded in practical applications of science and technology. Founded in 1861 by William Barton Rogers, it contains 34 academic departments that are divided into five different schools and one college. The school has played a large part in developing the electronic digital computer, in biomedical engineering, and developing the internal navigational syatems in missiles and spacerafts, as well as, contributing to defense programs durig World war II and the Cold War. MIT is ranked #1 worldwide in technology and #2 overall among the world's top 200 universities. MIT's main Cambridge campus spans approximately a mile of the Charles River front and the neighborhood of MIT is a mixture of high tech companies mixed with residential neighborhoods
Turn back the pages of history and relive the bustling seaport days of colonial boston, and the drama of the American Revolution with a narrated tour aboard a historic trolley.
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Experience art from the perspective of college students by visiting The Beijing Urban Design Studio: 20 Years of International Collaboration exhibit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.
