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• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  experience from your friends, and you just want to see what all the excitement ... balls in a lecture hall. "It's considered bad form to aim at your ... else to imbue your theoretical, abstract learning with a lot more

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Saves The Pact God bless Stu's hairy face.

  

  agony of yesterday's events, I walked into our weekly staff meeting to ... Officer and Director of the Educational Council, has become my new bearded hero. We'll give him a few days to grow and then we'll get some pics up

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 1, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is NEET?

  NEET is a collaborative and project-based academic program from the School of Engineering. The program aims to educate young engineers to build the new machines that will address societal needs by preparing them to
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  the problems we have on Earth." If you're curious, NASA has even posted ... is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT ... early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  . If your initial reaction to that was "...um, what?", then I'll fill you in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual ... Feast, and at one point on Saturday morning I managed to fill all of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  room several times before gently returning it to its original position on ... protects her right palm from the cruel concrete. On Sunday, she goes to get ... time we got back to MacGregor, and captured on a non-cracked i

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  Final Presentation. Everything you need to know lives on this site ... !']If you weren't able to secure a ticket—worry not:[/annotation] there's a ... Kayode D. '27, who are posting their live reactions to the whole event

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on ... Your Love" by Redbone just came up on my Spotify radio shuffle. It's a ... . Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of ... TOTALLY Susan Hockfield." *looks over her shoulder* "You're right! I need to ... 't care enough to pack everything into 4 boxes and partially due to the fact

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  Rails's unwillingness to install properly on his computer. 4:00 PM It ... psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Like all great creative people, from Claude Monet to Steve Jobs to ... blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  this entry drove your stomach crazy, feel free to click on the food pics ... (hang on, I’ll get to that), I decided that was a perfect time to make ... Ranters try to convince Dame Dorothy (Alex '12) to come to America on their

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  campus is to the left of the frame; you can see the Green Building on the ... week pretending to be a tomato. Hold on to those. I’ve learned that ...       On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when we meet your older sister August.  You were kind, July. You let us ... went on walks with our mom every night! Okay fine, almost every night

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels under building 66. Then, augmented reality animations were added to some of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  around, or openly be on their phones during class, or talk to their friends ... or something, because I'm going to need a lot more practice on ... walk around to talk to students one-on-one. This is something I'm used to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered ... to go since her original project was in health education programs on ... 're going to be on Haitian television. (!) I wish I brought something other

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010