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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and ... Theater: Scenery The final component of my theater arts concentration. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the biggest names in technology, student designers, innovators and entrepreneurs ... you leave the paper resumes at home in favor of "dropping them" online

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  . the way people walk. Okay, I may not be the biggest fan of New York City ... the whole escalator. Because if you do any of those things in New York ... friends. I am excited for some of the classes I'll be taking, but with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  surrounding Briggs Field: Helicopter flyby: Thousands of people packed ... demonstrate the values and character of Officer Collier. And his family has suggested that memorial gifts be made to the Jimmy Fund of the Dana

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  . Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of ... ) because even though the Institute was on "lateness excused" policy and some ... . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , because of the bend in the road, I hit it at about a 45 degree angle.   ... vehicle at a 45 degree relative to the forward motion of that vehicle, at ... As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  Late on Sunday evening, just before the first day of MIT's finals, hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  When I got my first guitar at age 3, I immediately began dreaming of ... to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,485 students ... , with other people, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of the idea of technological blowback? In other words, machines ... As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... three shows as of January 22nd. Proceed at your own risk... Battlestar

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  . You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... essay. I was admitted Early Action and withdrew most of my pending

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  web-chat with a class at the Polytechnic Institute of Valencia (which I ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of ... earthquake in Japan or election signs popping up outside of Kresge. The world consists of problem sets, papers, alarm clocks, and in my case, rowing

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  Bryant Park have in common? Besides all being located in New York City, they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned ... totally a secret fanboy of (Hard News and The Panic Virus are fantastic ... gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52 ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about ... incidence of these accidents from peaking, the Japanese railway authorities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009