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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  applied research to transition promising results toward practical products useful to the soldier. Army members of Team ISN also give guidance on soldier protection and survivability needs, and the relevancy of research
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  ," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the "Flammschmeisser." And, of course, you can catch Ankur '03 on Beauty and the Geek 2 ... Tonight's episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their ... presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the ... people walked out of the front doors that night as he approached the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of ... , currently on our faculty and all of them teach undergraduate classes. In fact
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves. He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  we looked at were Baylor University in Waco, TX and the University of ... at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm, with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this ... from campus to beaches and shipyards, and liveblogged from the depths of ... cherishes the identities built into the squares and streets of Boston, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for ... that January 1 is the submission deadline for students applying for ... the final "submit" button of your online application on or before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  [judgment] is in brackets, meaning it isn’t part of the original quote. From ... actually went. Me: “A good rule of thumb [in choosing jobs that will not ... mechanical, less human than taste—but of course this often happens in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  degree from MIT within 90 days of each other, really, what can I not do ... 111-year history, in 1918. That was because of World War 1. So it's not ... Susan Hockfield, but I'm sick of hearing about global warming when I check

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... actually not required for the computer science major, and I was a comp sci ... , still a computer science major, I took four computer science classes, none

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and ... Tabasco sauce....not a great idea) Second entree: Spaghetti with Cream of

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it ... quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human resources department released guidelines on the type of language they are

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  full of finding out about the lives of those who are applying to MIT and ... months ahead. Here are a handful of tips I have for anyone who applies to ... . Also make certain you apply to a number of different schools. The chance

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  from the beginning. This kind of thing doesn't just apply to MIT. At ... ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I ... time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  received earlier that week from two of the six UROPs I had applied to for the ... consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all ... inconsistent on both sides of the ball. Earlier this season, when the Patriots

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011