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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single ... -level design competition that challenges teams of students to build and race open ... US competition in Lincoln, NE each June. I’ve worked on five of our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking ... , and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the ... faces. SO CUTE. The green and yellow faces are kind of haunted

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U ... friends and I realized that the few extra dollars spent on getting a PODS

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the ... than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple ... , and green (the fraternity’s colors) tick marks and labels appeared on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  uniform rim of mass M and six thin uniform spokes mass m, is released from ... involves the moment of inertia and omega (angular velocity (what we ... . This involves finding the moment of inertia for the rim and adding the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  distraction, right? TVtropes One of the most addicting and hilarious sites I ... could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of ... : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... adjust? what if the road your cart travels on is irregular and uneven? if

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  of a novel culture, history, and politic, based on Sam's previous ... academic year is completed, and as such, it's also the time of year that MIT ... contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is ... , started working on building one, and today they launched it. As I wrote in ... uncanny intelligence of a mobile device. It's powered by Dust (and React

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome ... rate in the triple digits.  The wailing of sirens and the steady chop ... tweeted, and posted on Facebook, spreading the warnings to avoid public

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and ... researchers are focusing on hereditary and environmental risk factors. Senior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... Problem Set - 1 Exam involving problems on design optimization and NDE ... as just a lot of math, and not the friendly kind. Interestingly enough

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  mixture of self-aware rambling and MIT things to exercise my Internet ... , focusing on how organisms relate to each other and their environment instead ... longer my cup of tea. Also we get to grow microorganisms in mud and water

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects. There are ... programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI, and WTP -- have their application ... juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  (and Ben and Nance) been? Reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email ... ambitious and inspirational project is headed up by Nicholas Negroponte of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said ... small pile of paper and the weight of shredding two baby trees with me but ... skull this week and because I want to go do a few cartwheels on Random

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ...you’re taking all of these kids from around the country and the world ... eve of the '12s graduating and after having one year to condense my ... -that-be on MIT blogs). --- This is a simple story of three guys, how they met

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  first, and applicants second.”']You should focus on taking care of ... litany of disasters and/or disruptions: fires, blackouts, strikes, typhoons ... domestically (and other catastrophes abroad), these kind of events happen, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  challenged themselves in high school and have taken advantage of their ... that all of our students start on equal footing. Though most advanced ... education back at MIT, and you will never exhaust our curriculum of hard
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement tests, APs, and whether you'd prefer Chem or Bio first semester. On the ... class, touching on subjects like objective goods, rational desire, and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008