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• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  temperature scales and wow is the difference visible. The CPW weather machine is broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're ... This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  getting paid and doing two of my favorite things, and I felt like the luckiest person in the world, because one of those things is my career. And I ... hundreds of tech startups and fifty other colleges or whatever the statistic

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome, online. Click To Play   Thanks to MIT TechTV for posting the clip!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  Game of Thrones. The little kitten is so cute! She jumps all around and ... . '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in ... adopted her kitty, and when the two siblings were together in the cage she

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  the good ol' days of Nintendo. The small dome with it's very own Mario ... is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you're having fun. More photos of the rest of the day coming soon.

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• 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 ... model RC airplane called the Parkzone Radian. And instead of my basement ... cutter and various other tools. We assembled the plane right out of the box

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• 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 ... from the harp she plays or the dimensions and composition of a homemade ... pursuit of math and science and taking the toughest classes her school

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

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  exhausted (Amy)... All in all, we're relieved that this part of the journey is over. Have a great weekend everyone, and best of luck to each of you. :-) ... Well folks, the time has come. Note that the pic up top has changed

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as they set foot on campus. One of these papers is the famous list of "101 ... aware that some of the ones on my list are also on the official list. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  Sciences, or EAPS) and was a member of the a cappella group the Muses ... Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys ... season of Beauty and the Geek, coming in third place. You may remember him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  critiquing our deceptions, to our own selves and also to others; at the end of ... deception lubricates the societal wheels of Ferrante's universe and make it ... -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  'm applying the "enjoy the power and beauty of your youth" concept and ... it around the house. Also, a lot of upperclassmen are interested in ... , and Portuguese, and also French (just for fun). So sometime over the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  technologies and the distribution power of the Web, fan communities are ... profoundly frivolous. As director of the Comparative Media Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  (think of how many things are on the nanoscale) and its interdisciplinary ... manipulate and assemble nanowires at the National Institute of Standards and ... means exhaustive and it’s absolutely astounding to see the plethora of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the MIT Energy Initiative?

  The MIT Energy Initiative is a platform for highly focused energy-related activity at MIT. The program includes research, education, campus energy management, and outreach programs that cover all areas of energy supply and
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  the interviewer will evaluate you in the process and what role the ... of the process instead. Most of the comments/questions I received last time had to do with what the ECs look for, what questions they ask and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  piece of advice: don't try and go crazy on the ASEs just cause. There are ... vast majority of students will opt for the "regular" version. 18.01 and ... It's June! Which means of course you're not interested in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non ... . Last spring, I tried taking 18.901, Topology, but the first class was...interesting. Due to some technical mix-up, the vast majority of the class (40-ish

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021