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  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  ;   Veronica M. '22, from Kenya, is the queen of cheesy science puns ... had you come here an hour ago, or indeed at any point since July of 2011 ... reason, and with many of the the same goals. And times have changed, and so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... password, just go to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  - Science and policy of climate change * Leon R. Glicksman - Buildings * John ... scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with ... world's energy crisis through science, engineering and education." During

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  sounds like--a team of students designs, builds, and flies a remote-control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  110%. Some day soon, many of us will have to offer our support to ... of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  classes begin next week. But over the last week, the Class of 2026 arrived on campus for their orientation, of which one major component is Residential Exploration, or REX for short, which is part of how housing is assigned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The ... everything college has to offer. They want to work hard, show their parents

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  ), one of the FPOPs (Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs) offered to incoming ... we drop it off the fourth floor of Baker House... Only after we let ... . All but one egg survived. Go engineers! Of course there were obligatory

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually ... got to do the same thing! Except instead of LEGOs, we started with a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The ... place it on the dining table of the 132 suite at precisely 12:10 AM on ... with your offering. The truth is, Baxter never really left you. Search

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female faculty in the School of Science reported that they were discriminated ... of inspiring science teachers, I also had one or two who wondered aloud

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode, Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  For those of you who don't remember or are new here (or don't care ... Northwestern University, an intensive three-week academic program for gifted ... my argument, too. There's a video on CollegeHumor of some students

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  currently interested in the intersections of science and history - where the ... became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus ... biological, chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineers, computer
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  structure of space and time science is nothing but an extended frame of ... a pen with which mass writes on the pages of spacetime. science ... shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  past, all of the bloggers you see here on this site have applied using ... note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults[/annotation] who work for the Admissions Office. I applied around this time in 2015

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... been negligent of them. It’s interesting to note that a fair number of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  weights of the top three airplanes at the end of today: University of ... Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet Texter", 91 percent of people between 28-35 have used their mobile devices ... think of. As our Internet culture continues to mature, words such as

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012