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  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  Senate Resolution 195. "Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts (for himself and Mr ... ; Whereas the commitment of MIT to innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit ... sales of approximately $164,000,000,000 and represent 26 percent of total

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  .125 focuses more on theory and 11.131 focuses on practical issues. For instance ... like this one. Photo courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net And of ... some class at MIT as an impartial observer and take notes on how the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  on about “third-degree burns”, I gazed around the room and crafted a ... a few of these mysterious confections. Lo and behold, my dietary ... someone noticed and swatted it out of my hand and onto the floor, shattering

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  to focus on biology or chemistry) Physics: -1 year of physics with lab ... regrettably true. Medical schools pay a lot of attention to your GPA and MIT ... -working, successful, and can handle the rigors of their program, and MIT has a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  lives. And then there's me! I don't have any of those kinds of ideas, but ... doing this kind of stuff, but I quickly got the hang of it again and was ... 23, 10:00 pm I ran into some of my teachers from MIT and a few friends

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here ... rate), and the debate is one of the few parts of the process that I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!).” On the sunny Saturday of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting ... extended a beanstalk. On it, hung Jack, all packed and ready for adventure

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  to me, and on to you. It is pretty awesome, and another piece of data ... about the perspective of an 86 year old veteran and videogamer on life in ... part of the Internet - though culturally close and easily accessible via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually ... robots (and that I'm in now- more on that later). As part of our final ... model RC airplane called the Parkzone Radian. And instead of my basement

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

   protection and survivability capabilities. Team members collaborate on basic research to create new materials, devices, processes, and systems, and on ... useful to the soldier. Army members of Team ISN also give guidance on
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  mailing. And of course a full update on Friday about the progress of the ... with the last parts of our process before decisions are made final and ... cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... where the speakers shared their insights about the ins and outs of being a ... , French, German, Japanese, Spanish), History, History of Art and

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

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... that aren't on the tour, and, of course, some friendly advice. We can ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  skin slowly slipping against the shape of the world and holding on just ... and sit on some rock of the mountain and pull out your sandwich and ... with the sesame paste on top. For a few hours I felt the city move and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... content of all of my classes, especially my HASS classes and found myself ... they felt within society and culture. I also got out of my comfort zone a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the ... Buzzfeed, and it was actually really cool. Apparently, “there are a lot of ... MIT ran in preparation for the hackathon) and SWEet Week (the Society of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... models; building and testing mockups; customer evaluation of mockups

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present ... , here, here, and most recently here and here. Some of you may feel happy, some of you may feel sad, and some of you may have complicated feelings

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer ... , work on great research, visit incredible places, and have a truly unique ... work on represents a different area of materials science than I had

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had ... , and set new goals for this cycle. I'm very excited to embark on my

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005