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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... directly manipulate and assemble them. One of the few such tools is optical ... Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  side of the globe!' or 'i talked to my next door neighbor on radio', and ... 1XM in serif font, and on top of that, the curvature in the picture ... revamping, and after some iterations on the back of a [annotation note

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  item you are checking on and the approximate date that it was received by ... You may track the progress of your application in the application ... business days to process materials at the busy Early Action and Regular
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which ... attractive in a man: give me lots of short words of encouragement and let me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  their choice of Part D plans and the impact on their well-being. I am also ... Economics, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics. Dr ... Fellowship, a FIRST award from the National Institute on Aging, and the Kenneth

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Workshop (red) in Building 66, on the other side of campus. Every Tuesday and ... schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... after 7.013 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That gives me a fairly low time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  i had an awesome long weekend, where i went sailing with a friend and ate dinner with other friends on friday, and i got to play my first assassins guild games in a while on saturday, and i got a lot of work done on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  entire academic career. I read a lot on the theory and basis of sociology ... framing of these issues, their ethical and policy implications, and ... typically get out of the way your freshman and sophomore year. Then there are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping ... magnificient. Oh and there were lots of baboons too. We drove into the game ... nearly got charged by a white rhino. I took a lot of photos. And the world

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Zag and all of MIT indeed will miss him. ... Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include Commencement and MIDAS (a.k.a. the party button). Check it out. Marsha Bolton

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  ’s a bit of a Star Wars nut, and recently, he’s been on a quest to build ... model of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and landing it on a mini-barge in the ... engineering major, we got married after graduation, and his alarming levels of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was ... intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  , and Composer of the Month, all of which stem from a diverse range of ... everyone about the history and culture of bento in Japan before leading us in ... collected in a twenty-year odyssey around China, Europe, and the east coast of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A ... updated!). A number of the journalists focus on the financial aid packages ... from the harp she plays or the dimensions and composition of a homemade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... on Earth, and I helped Veena find a delightful new coat worthy of Kara ... to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  On this day celebrating eagles, barbeque, and the adoption of the ... of thousands of onlookers died down, the police loudspeaker came on and ... ), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  profile, and a letter of recommendation). MIT's recommendations process is ... section of your application. We will also accept letters and materials ... MIT requires letters of recommendation from two teachers. The most
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  'll be reading them this week and posting some of them next week. Good news for Heroes fans at MIT: Masi Oka, who plays the lovable and awesome ... Chairman of the American Conference on Diversity. I'll be answering more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends ... idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of July (and have the coolest boat on the Charles River). Seriously, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  that you want on a 3D CAD program like Solidworks (see image below of a ... engines and ran them at the same time: [] Here are some examples of pretty ... : [] LEDs mounted on the flywheel with a battery: [] Below are examples of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006