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• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  day of classes at MIT! What happened? And why are you dropping physics ... I wrote an entire entry about his lab (I mentioned this at the seminar ... here at MIT, and she forwarded the link to my grandparents. My

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so ... Library of Congress, says Kahle. The collection, available at www ... . [...] While studying at MIT in the 1970s, Kahle says, there were two big ideas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  week, and back at home, I kept referring to Shirali '05 and Farhan '05 as ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when ... "pre-med" track, so you can major in anything at all and have access to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  night, I went out with a few friends for a late night dinner at the Asgard ... one. (Don't try this at home). I decided to run across Mass. Ave with ... Midnight Madness at this restauarant where if you buy a soda you pretty much

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say ... Special at Dial-A-Pizza (in Somerville), Walden Pond, the Public Garden, 80's night at ManRay, the way the air smells in the fall, our kickass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT. I arrived at MIT bushy tailed and bright eyed at the prospect of ... Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small ... create double stranded RNA to "silence" genes. Recently, researchers at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review ... opinion, I contacted Jessica Banks, a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Computer ... .D candidate at the MIT Media Lab, an expert on robot-legged locomotion, who was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  delicious." Anyway, I think I've analyzed this movie aimed at ten ... check out the delivery of the sixth book at their Coop, so I figured it ... lightning bolt?) said they got it at Curious George. They were also handing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  freshman students we may admit (this is the only quota at MIT). Recently that ... . paper- vs. computer-based test). We recommend scores of at least 100 ... officers, we have a wide knowledge base and are pretty good at figuring out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  affordable dining experiences run by students, for students. Hosted at unique ... about it. This itself was like finding yourself at a meadow, and having to ... could easily (and humbly) find himself at any institution post

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  even looked at? What ever happened to going the extra little bit? I can ... determine how the test will correlate with future success at MIT (unlike CR ... the EA round are accepted in the RA round. You are not at a disadvantage

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

   podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title ... Olsen: On today's episode, Chris Peterson, Director of Special Projects at ... autonomy at MIT in order to be able to choose your own educational adventure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  perhaps some thoughts about life at MIT too. If you're not as interested in ... some thoughts about life at MIT :). The math in the first part is some ... first year at MIT. Part 1: The Loomis-Whitney inequality (aka the math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  I Love Tetris.  I think it was the first videogame I ever played at ... -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version ... ="97282" image3="97288" /] Now that I’m at MIT, I play tetris almost daily. In the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  major at mit! this past semester he took 8.13, junior lab! ///// Junior ... rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the ... ”, the Physics department at MIT doesn’t follow along this path but instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense ... hurt after a few minutes, you should probably only use it sparingly if at ... probably moves forward at roughly the same time as your right leg, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  . Plus, cyclists have to be focused at all times, eyes on the road (so ... the needed direction at the same time. We got to see a small demo ... is Pinkie, stares at us knowingly through beady black eyes   A

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  't decreased at all. If you post your question there, you have a few advantages ... . Battle on! - V. M. asked, Over here at my school, we aren't taught any ... the admissions office. - M. B. said, I spoke with some counselors at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  chronic ankle pain and tendonitis. At the art museum, I was sitting on a ... velcro echoes. In Chinatown, we walk at a snail pace. Guilt increases with ... , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  exercise, I got rightly rejected from a position at a startup. My interviewer ... having the wrong strengths at the wrong time for the company. That there ... lower stakes. Decisions made at the cusp of my childhood felt vitally

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025