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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  picture, but it's subtle on the ring itself) and a map of the Infinite ... on the chapel is meant to represent religion, and the juxtaposition of ... , there are blocks with the letters A, B, and C on them. This represents

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  my courses at MIT than I have on all of my biology classes I’ve ever taken, and my evolving road has left a record of all the things I ever ... Computer Science, and had even vacationed to Cameroon in the winter of 2012

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  square miles of the ocean and find millions of fish. Rather than being used ... are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon ... engineering and is the associate director of the LMP. To analyze these systems ... to create the next generation of smaller, and therefore more efficient

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  be catching fireflies in the courtyard and standing on the edge of the ... around. On one shelf were the skulls and 3D facial reconstructions of a ... there, I didn’t really do much, and out of boredom, I went to check on all

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  is on boundary layers and laminar external flows, neither of which I ... rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... floor is dating Loop, the southern half of the second floor, flowers and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on my forehead allow my friends to play connect-the-dots on the go, and my ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... theory and observation and also to improve the understanding of how these ... happened to calculate the radii of the stars and one day a fellow astronomer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly ... heard about OpenCourseWare, a large (and well-funded) effort to put all of ... start on -- his advisor, Prof. John Essigmann, the first author of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  sounds like--a team of students designs, builds, and flies a remote-control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... epoxy and building composites out of kevlar, carbon fiber, and insulation

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  keeping track of the budget and our group quickly settled on a design. It ... school as part of a club you were in? Or one of those hands-on engineering ... put together, on steroids, enhanced with access to a network of former

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to the students, faculty, and staff of Virginia Tech and to their families ... professionalism and expertise of our colleagues in the MIT Police, the Environment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  back to me, it was nearing the middle of Week 3, and I was on my way to ... deadline of 4 weeks and an MIT undergrad in the midst of classes, clubs ... brought up on my screen. Some were easy typos to resolve, but some of them

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such ... no guys) Two and a Half Men Law and Order: SVU The Real Housewives of ... stereotypes and biases in the media and on film. These films were both feature

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... current social structure places so much emphasis on adhering to norms and ... results - not only in terms of the groundbreaking research and new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  events. Guess what they are based on this picture of my bookshelf. Since I ... bit and plug it here. The other event is running on Friday and Saturday ... attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  science and technology. One of the biggest reasons I turned down a job on ... As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... interesting cast of characters than in many films. And composer A. R. Rahman had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of ... few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of ... kind of creepy. The bar corresponding to what's currently going on with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  was standing on the side of the road, and ambled into the forest as we ... ranger station, and filled out backcountry permits. The park ranger on duty ... in the car and took off along the scenic drive, the vehicle in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013