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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  disasters before, but never of this scale. We got off the plane, and the ... the poorest country in the Western hemisphere - and most of all, how to ... the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... of products that spun out of 2.009 and into the market. I remember ... good question by the look of surprise and horror on the face of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  aspect of the X chromosome and its role in biology - in the first few weeks ... so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first ... the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of ... our Professors about cutting-edge research, cool discoveries, and all of ... thing is about 2.5 hours in length, and not quite as life-changing as the

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  : Conduct first-hand research on the process by which humans die by freezing. Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... supermarket down the street. Granola bar of unknown provenance. 12:30 PM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your ... ?) You jump and start with freestyle. At the end of the second lap, you ... the vast majority of your peers passed the swim test as fresh-off-the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  MIT, and it's inspiring. It gives me hope in a state of the world whose ... -time low in the wake of Senior House and its closure. Classes here are ... the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... simplify the equivalent of the first 15 minutes of an introductory lecture ... are just the basics of parsing and I already had to let so much

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  yourself a cup of coffee, and commented “FIRST!” on my blog already. Great ... first final showed that everyone* interviewed found the answer by one of ... , preferably designed around the theme of vegetarianism and explosives. 21. Eat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... 're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first ... ceremony today will be one of the first steps along that road. Mr. Chang said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  for our feedback on the ride (with the promise of free candy!) and I ... , supplying 45% of the nation's mushrooms. California, in second place, provides ... grandmothers' house in the middle of the night. In the words of a great man, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  out to vote for him, the first time voting for many of them. He asked me ... bad press regarding student housing conditions, and the City of Boston ... on who should be the next President of the United States, and there are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  said that the ending of a story defines what it is about. And I haven ... , as if I were a noble gas or something. And not even one of the cool ... forcefully. The first round my ball did not land in the gutter and instead

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high ... member of the Class of 2009 and would like to request a one-year (or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  was the first real session of studio, and we… practiced drawing a ... tracing paper and the like. I have a feeling I'll be using lots of those. Hooray for second and last half of the week! ‚ò∫

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  hours worth of arithmetic.   The first graph is a model of the ... know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of ... -system-simulating nerds. I've run into a lot of people, both at and outside of MIT, who say

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some things you should know before you watch the below video clip. First, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  centered on virtual reality. The top movers and shakers of the VR field would ... online guides said I'd be overwhelmed by the size of CES, and I was indeed ... my plane landed late on the first day. But afterwards, my friends and I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  desk, in Foo lounge on the floor Foo, on the first floor of the 290 side ... For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  along the way.   There was the First Church of Christ Scientist and it ... really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place ... going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013