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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  pride that we have (p-sets took most of it away). But rest assured that ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad ... know feeling of anticipation right before decisions are released, what it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... unsurprisingly, more than half of the competitors, and all but one of the medals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most ... much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  depressing if you always think of it as the sun is setting. Last week was Week 5 of Michaelmas term at Cambridge. Week 5 at MIT means Fifth week flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of Science -- because what better place is there for two MIT grads to have ... rest of the pool. So basically, all you admissions poohbahs, I'm giving

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  week-long program for Intel Science Talent Search finalists. As part of the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i ... waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  science of my movies, you know, like, if Hayden's sitting over here, and you ... Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  much of something that really matters out into the universe without ... Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my ... time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  - 4.141, where you apply the iterative design process throughout the ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  new data and apply novel ways of thinking to improving the driving ... two months working for one of the most exciting companies on the planet ... of the best architecture for office and technical buildings. Together

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... it's already October. We're a third of the way into the semester ... of my friends are also graduating a semester early. It's one semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  was offering the items (like the jugs of cleaner) to the next tenant ... of other MIT undergraduate women. We're part of MIT's FSILG (Fraternity ... house, then after some investigating, they found that the source of the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  resources your school might offer. and of course if you have a better design ... i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  This summer my friends (who are around, instead of doing cool internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random opportunities around Boston and MIT campus. A lot of these adventures start

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of playing a sport (or two) here and what type of adjustments being a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT ... francisco in the middle of the Nevada desert which would be my first time out ... shelter, the Laplacetopede, named in honor of the great mathematician, along

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  plenty to keep me busy. Here are some of the many events from this time of ... reminder of the dorm-wide pumpkin carving study break this Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... better about being reminded about the inevitable fate of Graduating, a both ... project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016