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  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... will not be able to experience ever again in my undergraduate life here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip

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

  TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!

  

  out to dinner on Friday night as a reward for working hard all week. This week, we went to Buk Kyung II, a Korean restaurant in Allston. So yummy. ! P.S-- Sorry for the video quality, I've been trying to fiddle

  • by Celena C. '12
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend ... the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to ... multidisciplinary approach. The Center's goal is to improve the ability to accurately ... , Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, the Joint Program on the Science and Policy
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... 't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend each year. To help ... 't know if we will be able to select students from the wait list until
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What support is available for LBGTQ students?

  , welcoming communities on campus willing to answer questions for current MIT ... MIT strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for LBGTQ ... campaign has a great list of resources available to students as well.
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful ... to our email list without any commitment to apply for admission.
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a minute into the video. I generally listen to Jeremy, so I did. That's when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  November 2004, so I've got a handle on what I'm supposed to be doing in lab ... So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  prompted me to say, "You're taking 9.15? Me too!" Yessss, pset buddy). Jomar ... precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  Building to my UROP in building 18 (oh look, it's that map again- the Green Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell ... lab to walk home. Either I'm not very observant, or someone acted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  want to spend a lot of time on the boards and the blogs, but a guy can ... . The first thing my colleague did when Mail Services called him was to ... it to the front page so more people would see it. None of this makes it

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to ... 've found some people to work with on some of the classes. Late nights always ... , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  -high atrium to its bamboo forest to its bold colors to its people. This is Building 46, home to all that is Course 9: Brain/Cognitive Sciences. Which, as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His face is as smooth as a baby's, as they say. Which leaves yours truly as ... catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the ... that will help you develop your skills, amaze your future employers (our
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  . Thanks Schmiedl, let me know how to get invitations like this! ... Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal team actually removing the Apollo Lunar Lander from the great dome. This

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  language didn't get updated as it was supposed to. Hopefully this will be ... Hi folks, I see in the comments from my last entry that MyMIT is telling people that decisions have been mailed. I've asked the tech folks to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story about struggling with sacrificing self-care to prioritize academics

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024