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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... Tower A stock shot of a ballroom, all dolled up Here are the 10

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins. So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to

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

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the ... my past two summers were spent in a variety of locales (take advantage ... in the future. I am spending the summer in Bend, OR, a small city of

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

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the ... ! And I hear Ankur was even there! I could have gotten to meet a reality show contestant! Oh dear, this has been a lifelong dream of mine. So, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  film "Fantastic Four" (it got a "thumbs down"), and one plot point caught ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn't cook often and ... lunch and dinner. I got slightly sick of dining hall food after a while

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  section and saw a giant article on the MIT men's basketball team, and guard ... the academic bar isn't lowered for athletes. Earlier this year, we had a speaker series in the Admissions Office. We asked a number of faculty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  . As a Nextie, I had a choice between traditional and seminar advising ... it sounds like. You're assigned a supervisor, you schedule meetings ... your advisor every semester to talk mano-a-mano about which classes to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep ... with an unearthly chorus of low self-esteem for the past week. Take a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses ... and greets, pub crawls and administrative meetings, it felt like I was a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  for a good half hour. For what purpose was this? ^We lined up with our sorority sisters.                RING PREMEIRE!!!!! MIT has a very ... calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a 7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and ... . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  Influenza A, subtype H1N1 is the most famous swine flu virus. It is endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone ... MIT, with a unique talent for both writing and astrophysics. Perhaps you ... . Last Thursday, I attended a Science Journalism panel sponsored by the MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  . Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent ... security craziness and what would inevitably be a very emotionally difficult ... government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  About 6.5 years ago, I graduated with a Philosophy degree and a minor in Political Science. Two and a half years ago, after graduating again ... time due to mental health issues, but I’m thriving, and I’m a health

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  !']If you weren't able to secure a ticket—worry not:[/annotation] there's a ... fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the ... , supporting my team the way I had hoped, and taking a backseat overall. But, it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  .009 (Product Engineering Processes), a capstone product design course in Course 2 (MechE). As promised, I wanted to follow up with a recap blog post this ... watch a particular team demo a particular product, you can use these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017