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• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  Jamboree, All A Cappella Extravaganza, and the 7th Annual Battle of the Bands ... matching up all 1,063 of you coming this weekend with current student hosts, and planning the Closing Remarks and Variety Show. After all the "day

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  with you, write a report, and submit it as part of your application. With ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Ultimate Frisbee team and participating in activities through the Society of ... scanning tunneling microscope that operates at very low temperatures and in ... surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and appreciate the harmonious blend of cityscapes and seascapes in the metropolitan ... First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  about the common theme of games, dolls and playthings in his novel ... me and I just think that they're so wittily reflective of the world and ... movie and play it during their concert. This year it was "Planet of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  of tables and chairs. ...challenge accepted. Daniel and I put our heads together and did 13 of them in 2 days (MIT students are experts at ... started the day by running (1) and (2). (2) brought us to the Museum of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  because of cyclical reinforcing feelings that math became uninteresting and ... gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas ... of God. • Proof by obfuscation: A long plotless sequence of true and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  desert planet of Utapau and Luke receiving this message from his older ... . The forces of the Bogan have become strong and deadly...I am lost ... resurrection of Obi-Wan Kenobi. And how to explain this unlikely event? LUKE: Ben

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... of thought. Throughout the semester you'll take 1-3 tests + final and ... power to roll out of bed and grab some breakfast making materials. I swipe

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  rain! OH, is that actually water falling out of the sky?! And it falls ... point, my closet consisted of shorts, jeans, and t-shirts. Just as I was ... article of clothing that could help me withstand puddles and rain and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  testing, and it introduced me to a lot of the software that I'm now using in ... expected to contribute more and work with a fair amount of autonomy. This was ... designing, building, testing, crashing and then redesigning. By the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  be "Lots of Taylor series and some MATLAB code that Adam does not ... of analyzing Brayton cycles and figuring out the delta s of compressor ... and taking a nap for the rest of the semester. Each project is quite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been ... restaurant on the water's edge and taking countless photographs of the food is ... drive around and take pictures of any funny signs you find. During the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  bookstagram where i posted aesthetic and heavily-filtered pictures of my ... current state of the world, and damn, does it hit hard. highly recommend ... participate in them and post videos of ourselves dancing in a FaceBook group we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from ... .320 (Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems) and 7.18 (Topics in ... ;   Tomorrow is Career Fair, and out of the 26 emails I’ve received so

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And ... . And what better way than a pictoral odyssey through one of my favorite

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  a few weeks ago, and asked us to apply some of the concepts we learned ... Building, so it’s nice to get out of standard lecture halls and TEAL ... of BP as a company, one looked at BP’s technical background, and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and ... curriculum for the Class of 2011, and Hanhan explained the current system and ... area of EECS - 1 Department Lab - 6.UAT and 6.UAP as a senior A Tech

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns ... 's just say, at the bottom of everything was a turd. That would be me and ... €¦ What do you think - would you go for this kind of humor and strange

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011