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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn't still want to save them up!). The point is, $100 of prize money wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... experience.   The effort spans the early phases of product development

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  . When we got there, the first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of ... ="attachment_73145" align="aligncenter" width="756"] one of the first things you see ... the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... taught it, Fall 2012, he earned a 6.8/7.0 teaching score in the end of term ... gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  full of finding out about the lives of those who are applying to MIT and ... I don’t have to navigate the crush of people during passing time I ... favorite parts of the job. If you have ever been to one of my sessions you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... step closer to that goal.  But that was not the most eventful thing of ... and unstoppable. Watching her sprint down the left side of the field

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan. It also means that we have the highest per-capita average of fire

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  the whole college. Those of you with whom I've spoken about Oberlin know ... moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  Large Hadron Collider, and how it was the first supercollider of its kind ... audience for questions, the first of which came from a professor to my right ... was the first sign of the Higgs boson. It was a reveal which had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... abundance of free time was a given) I’ve been spending less time on the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  Standing Exam instead. Because of that, this semester was the first time I ... science department's pure coding class sequence. I never took the first class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  Sort of. Do you remember the nursery rhyme about the London Bridge ... chainsaw magnate Robert McCulloch submitted the winning bid of $2 ... photos from the first stop on my trip -- London. Check back soon for the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos ... of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP psychology class, we learned about the different theories of emotion ... experience of emotions hinges on two things: (1) the physiological arousal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick. But it can be lovely, too.   When I first thought of this blog ... to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural ... economics, therefore I try to take the bus home every day instead of waiting ... , which, navigationally speaking, resembles the Lost Woods from Legend of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  -known class around the Institvte. As many of you know, 6.001 was a class invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class ... Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  's been lots of other exciting news, including the production of the first 1,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One ... technology into the hands of millions of the world's poorest children. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away ... hold the first copy in my hands. Those of you who will be applying next year - you're in for a serious treat. I honestly think this is one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors, we have to meet with each one of the new program directors to discuss ... surrounding it, mostly logistic things. as you can see it is a whole lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022