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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about ... with permission.  And then he built a mechanical water strider to ... mechanical engineering, he went on to work in the MIT Hobby Shop, so that he

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  was a semi-sullen teenager, who was maybe not exactly thrilled to be on a trip to Boston. I had about thirty seconds of, wow, you can't even ... 'll come, but I don't really want to see the glass flowers [more on these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when ... better with more people (intro bio assigns grades almost completely on a ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on time due to mental health issues, but I’m thriving, and I’m a health ... "] Katsushika Hokusai’s "The Great Wave" - Beaded Reproduction[/caption] A quick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... those things - and a Truman Scholar as well! I got a chance to interview ... shoot me an email, and I can forward it on to her. Watch the videos! You

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  understand how we got to be human. Genomics is a new and quickly evolving field ... on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string ... teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... diseases. The gallery on the first floor of this brand new center is

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  . Let me try to catch up on a few questions (while I'm still backed up ... Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  quick note: i did a TED talk with kano about fire spinning once, but ... day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... accident and on purpose). Besides committing to MIT, joining Spinning Arts

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... time to educate a new generation of technologists in the public interest ... Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... season a quick trip to Chief Delphi will return you with tons of prototypes ... group of high schoolers have six weeks to create a five foot, 120 pound

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  required. It's actually not even common -- when I went to a workshop on grad ... class, it gets recorded on your transcript merely as a "P". If you get a D ... was going downhill pretty quickly, so I spent a lot of time fighting

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I ... enough to know what he's doing, a rare combination. I think I'll be able to ... gather, it has a lot to do with internal forces of materials (twisting

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  'd agreed to help when I took on my positions. Do I have a duty to the wider ... so much else going on — I was constantly delighted by new realizations about this place I would call home, and I felt a drive to be social, to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... . From the website:  In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  students already out of school. You do not need to have a hardcopy of your ... section. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to an essay ... . We are happy to accept a midyear/updated transcript from your school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  is best to mail supplemental music/art/etc. to us on a CD. I'm told ... lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... with. As a result, I got to know her incredibly well instead of him. She

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last ... development of a more sustainable food system on our own campus. They also work

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  "Student Housing Panel.' Apparently, there were a lot of new arrivals to the ... invited to sit on a panel and answer some questions. I had no idea what the ... , a living group in New House. 2) To be perfectly honest, I don't know

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  snow Scott '12 jumps on what he thought was a grenade but quickly ... roommate Mike '13 and I did a quick calculation. Approximating the igloo we ... snow is about 1/5th that of water (which we conjectured based solely on a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012