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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  wingspans as a sort of sail, and angling the feathers on each wing's end to ... swim class)  The idea of “No Elbows on the Table!” stems from when ... [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  different community events and (of course) occasionally when working on psets ... focused on math that also supports the Ghanaian branch of International Math ... Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and ... , however, 17.901 requires solely 6 hours of research. On Wednesday, my ... 17.S914 Conversations in You Can’t Have on Campus. It’s 2 hours of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  and recommendation on the politically tortuous issuance of the ... amount of time on it. At the very most, you can help me (totally voluntary ... ensure a steady supply of the oil on which we are so reliant, even as we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people ... for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was ... become a connoisseur of Campbell’s canned soups. On a good day, I can find

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  RETRIEVER SITTING ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASSROOM 3) HOLY CRAP I AM TOTALLY ... and go through workshops on printing, lighting, and other aspects of ... , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now ... the MIT Class of 2029, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have ... tinkerers  — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  webcast of the event on Facebook. Archived videos Note: the aspect ratios ... 2.009 is over, but you can watch the archived webcast on Facebook ... ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... , 19,020 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2020. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,485 students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  on Elizabeth's "Pi-nal Countdown" blog post: Courtesy of my ... Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  As promised, I come bearing more pictures, Some of these are courtesy of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the ... lounge Some of the Haus frosh hanging out in one of our suites: In the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases ... I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  built on top of soil. It’d be a bad look if your newly constructed home ... software. One of these, and the one we’re focusing on in this class, is called Revit. To get a grasp of it, on the first day of class, our

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  distance? It's a hack! On March 4th, 2008, Gary Gygax (the creator of ... 's a lot of math! We continued work, coming on 1 o'clock in the morning ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the ... brainpower) to spend on each of them. That being said, I'm really heavily ... IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital ... couple of emails later I had a UROP, working as a technician on a fleet of ... relying on one larger vehicle to do it on its own. The focus of the project

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006