Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  This is a story of how two MIT students — one with a fabulous idea, but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a very special sunrise. On this day, the summer solstice, the sun is perfectly positioned to shine through the…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  You can’t take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until you’ve completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Last night, I watched an award winning cartoon about snails, “Les Escargots.” One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try to do all the…

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Sorry I’ve been MIA lately- I’ve been taking 2.670 (Intro to Machine Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written way back in early September (yeah, remember that?) Imagine you’re working on your first 18.02 pset. Okay,…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT — MITES, RSI, and WTP — have their application deadlines next week. All three are open exclusively to high school juniors.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  To accompany today’s entry about MIT summer programs, here is a further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Night with Cranium Myth debunking and Cranium!

  

  MIT: Where we make “nerdy” things fun. Exhibit A: Mystery Hunt Team Party – Saturday January 20 As if doing puzzles and brain teasers for an entire weekend was not…

  • by Bryan
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Some languages do not effectively distinguish between blue and green. By now I think there should be a category called “e-mails that Sam has received from Hillel,…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  As you may have read on the front page of mitadmissions.org, our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received. This is a good time…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  I was thinking recently about the mixed messages that come through various forums about ambition and achievement. Simultaneously you hear “you can do anything” or the world is open to…

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning “the closest approach of an orbiting body to Mars” is “periareion.” My dorm, Burton-Conner, is the best. Even though we haven’t meaningfully updated our…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven’t had a chance to think up any good entries – sorry guys.…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers – a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you consider applying to…

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  [by Mirat Shah ’08] My name is Mirat and I am a junior studying Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and spent the past…

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I’m so funny! I crack…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here – I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you’re an ’11,…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking stories. I had originally planned to publish…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well. Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007