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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  resistance and thus being able to maintain a current without a voltage. The ... predicted to be the maximum. Physicists are understandably intrigued by these ... can exploit to make higher and higher temperature superconductors. At

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  's preceded and followed by a lot of info-sessions, panels, networking events ... an internship, it’s very important for me to have a sense of what ... date was pushed back a week this year due to a late Labor Day; to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  [/latex] (true by definition — a tau-tology, if you will), it’s important to ... ]. One way to “derive” the formula for the area of a circle is by taking ... numbers make much more sense. Since tau is symbolized by a Greek “t”, we can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  practices. Finally, we need to combat problems like obesity by examining a ... made the decision to skip the Q&A session and see if we could make it ... …just like on TV but better! He began by making a joke that giving the Compton

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  completed by you, the applicant. This form serves two purposes: to share your ... something to report. If you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades ... . I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise. How do I

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... 250 words. I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... 250 words. I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... never blog about varsity sports, why?" or "You try to hire bloggers from a ... all make hand turkeys, draw turkeys, or photoshop turkeys to shoot at

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Institute making sure we at least take two hours off a week to go soft brain ... a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... credits to Ayesha B. ‘18 (my fantastic roommate). I do not actually own a ... soft, and just forces you to shut up for a minute. I’ll sometimes just

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  1958, a couple members of the MIT fraternity Lambda Alpha Chi were making ... night after a chapter meeting, they decided they were going to mark the ... Lambda Alpha Chi, the pledges, to repaint it. What started as a funny

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  unproductive weekend, was to make a to-do list. I was then faced, however, with a ... more hours to the day, though…     You are reading a blog post about a ... , what?:   Or else!     I was delighted recently to see a pile of

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  . Dead phones can't make noises. But a concerned person can. I woke up to someone ... excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  better time to whip up a blog about the beginning of classes? The lighting was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging ... courses, but I've also committed to a bunch of cool side projects/UROPs that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  those same questions just a year or so ago. They are also easy to locate ... great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... anything. Boston is a great walking city and I hope you'll take some time to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... wonderful conversation I was lucky enough to have with a doctor I met when I

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased ... ", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  question. However, I did make a trip to the [annotation note="Alan: more on ... of around twenty questions, and, after a few months, managed to get ... ="Alan: also Cameron gets a special shoutout because she went to my high school

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , I was the only one able to go, which meant that I didn't know a single ... LED (no joke). And, I'm happy to report that after a month and a half of ... for me to leave for vacation on a high note. (That's right, vacation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... inside our individual rooms tend to be a bit more utilitarian, still ... because our busy-ness tends to vary a lot week to week. Nevertheless, it can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020