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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of ... favorite section is the science notes, which include Charles Darwin’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  opportunity to explore a diverse number of science, math, and engineering fields ... Event Outreach Chair of MIT's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - one of ... MIT Society of Women Engineers: The Exploring Majors Fair. "Through

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will host a reception at ISEF in Indianapolis.

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) on ... located above the intersection of Washington and Illinois streets in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 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…

  

  at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a ... surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), and the HASS ... considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing. This thing is TOFU. TOFU is the baby of Ryan Wistort, a grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  , you should accept the offer of admission from another college before May ... I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  tasks we put off during Selection. For me, this meant lots of returning ... reminded of an article I read a few years back:High schools work to ease stress in GPA competition At MIT, whether or not your school offers class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to build a structure out of leaning colored scalene triangles sometime and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  fact, it was one of the major factors of me applying and then later ... offered us an impromptu tour of Random Hall, which we gladly accepted. And ... Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... of seasoning. Rush burgers come with happy times. “Grilz are hot eom ... months of intermittent warmth, we got what finally felt like spring. Even

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  offer. A lot of people are wary of the statement that "CPW is fake - you ... myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... ,388 ft). It is an active volcano and a well-known symbol of Japan that is ... devouring bowls of chicken, eggs and rice, and buying a backpack cover that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... common data set, over 60% of the classes at MIT have 19 people or fewer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... of a ton of athletes.” Men’s basketball student-athlete: “I have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the ... current crop of graduating seniors but is also engaged with the the next

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  Environmental Science in 60 hours during my senior year of high school ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been ... computer science experience invalidated. I'm so tired of being told that my ... 6.009 - Fundamentals of Programming 8.02 - Physics II (E&M) CMS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops ... weasel out of ski lessons, since I don't own a pair of ski pants. So this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  chances of ever entering an American university, and assisted an elderly man ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017