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• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  at any rate. EA admits: after today's build, you'll be able to upload ... better experience for you guys. First, we'll be adding a lot of new portlets in the next month or two based on requests that you've made for

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was born and raised in India but for the past decade or so had worked as a project manager for NASA. He goes back to rural India to a village ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  burning sun will, some day, rise So what am I gonna be doin' for a while ... myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the ... ’d prefer relishing in the academic chaos over taking things slow, at least

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  make?” I was, for better or worse, all too familiar with this “ultra ... New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  isn't exactly something MIT is world-renowned for. Yet. But there's a dedicated cadre of people at MIT dedicated to changing that perception - and ... development at MIT: D-Lab. D-Lab is actually a trio of one-semester classes; the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• FAQ / Testing

  What are the MIT test codes?

  MIT's code for SAT is 3514 MIT's code for ACT is 1858 MIT's code for TOEFL is D021
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  in between   That was definitely my worst semester in-person at ... okay and *deeply* grateful for the people that supported me through my ... experiences scratched at me quietly clawed away at the hope I've so deeply held

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... time ever at MIT,  and then we went back home to not ... at Math Prize all over again; that Covid might end and my high school

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  logged into an online page for my Electromagnetism Class and saw the p-set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... laugh maniacally at your crawling pace. That probably suffices for now

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in ... , Wellesley, Harvard, and beyond for the Ballroom Dance Camp, Day 2. "Look ... probably an understatement. We've been positively explosive for the past two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  If you are at all following the news, you'll know that the US ... legal requirement for the government to continue paying its financial ... US politics? Professor Pauline Maier, a history professor at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... know what's going on and throws a more difficult curriculum at you ... say magic, but we actually had to go through the proof for this and I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  Doonesbury Straw Poll Congeniality Award. As for the question at hand -- Where ... academic futures for Alex Doonesbury: Should she go to Rennselaer, Cornell ... program running at a time so we don't kill the server again." Meanwhile

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  , Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ... meant, and I have a Monday class at 9:30 in the morning, which is early by MIT standards. Two things happened at almost exactly the same time to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  the Men's Ice Hockey game for a little Marching Band on Ice action and ... was particularly boisterous at this weeks game, and I'm sure that our ... tremendously violent sport even at the MIT level; even from our vantage point

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) at MIT have developed a ... In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT ... couple of examples. Take for example, 18.02, Multivariable Calculus, a

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  day of classes at MIT! What happened? And why are you dropping physics ... how 18.01 is a prereq and 18.02 is a co-requsitie for 8.02. Since I ... I wrote an entire entry about his lab (I mentioned this at the seminar

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so ... library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... Library of Congress, says Kahle. The collection, available at www

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a ... more details. You learn from your mistakes and get better at making predictions for outcomes. But every time you consider more details, you do more

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025