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• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  my dorm's i3 video, and then I lost an hour because of daylight savings ... to it. Just minutes ago, I logged on to mitadmissions, and there ... .) Psets stand for Problem Sets, and they are the equivalent of the "homework

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the ... , well over a hundred visitors flow into and out of the building. They ... little exhibit rooms, with posters of Saturn and its moons, and glass cases

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  probably dying of heat stroke. Marina T '25, Kidus Y '25, and I laying on the floor of New Vassar. I have absolutely no recollection of this ... '25 and I taking a ginger shot in front of Cambridge City Hall

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  Kay, known as the inventor (!) of laptops (back in the late 1960s) and a ... like, "Back when a bunch of us were inventing the Internet..." He went on ... , the sponsor of this project, is the largest employer of UROP students on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  of this particularly difficult semester and the beginning of summer ... in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what's honestly been a soulsucking semester so far, I went full-on retail therapy at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro ... I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I ... 's cough drops, irregular jelly beans, and all sorts of other things in no

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a ... , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an ... time on the positive side of the emotional spectrum. She recently created

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Chrysler on the performance characteristics of acceleration, braking, and ... (Aero/Astro), and 15 (Management) students. On top of the satisfaction of ... Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  nothing. We sped through documentation and thought up of new things on the ... they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I ... and brought inside before anyone on the walk-in line was. I was then

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  feared drowned after being forced to consume over 40 terabytes of data and ... first case of robot hazing on the campus. Last fall, during "Rush Week," a ... fraternity claimed that the "fun just got out of hand," and that the robot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  -WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an ... responsible for the first appearance of Smurfs. The Foreign Languages and ... Belgian beer and Belgian chocolate, comics represent a great source of pride

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  of dwelling on how much you hate or can't do something. The THIRD (and ... classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  and is now a teacher in Concourse. (He's on the far left of the Team ... : - Hazel Sive- Professor of Biology (sitting on the left) - Ari Epstein ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (sitting on the right) The three

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School Report and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  Academy's newest employee? And did you see the story about Sal Khan '98 on ... on Pi Day, at Tau Time (that is tomorrow, March 14, at 6:28pm EDT). Some of you, though, may be wondering -- what's the deal with Tau? Well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  attorney. "That sparked my interest in this blend of law and technology," she ... , she also served as an expert consultant on patent cases and coauthored Patent Litigation and Strategy. Moore earned a reputation for her use of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga”) photographed on the top floor of the MIT museum using a Polaroid ... aren't Mexico and the theme of places that are Mexico. I just reread the ... : Which escalated into: The people on the other side of the street on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  While You Wait… ...why not play Brawl?

  

  ), photographer-extraordinaire Eric Schmiedl '09 was on the scene as usual and has ... problems of current density, dielectrics, RC circuits, and all sorts of other ... , March 15 (Pi Day + 1). Best of luck to all of you! 2. Super Smash Brothers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  borrow a small, discreet digital point and shoot of the latest technology ... was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of coursework at MIT (maybe it's not, I don't know, I'm running on empty here

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006