Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... the stellar occultation technique that led to the discovery of Uranus ... invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... conveniently close to a lot of things, something I grow more and more thankful of ... Biomolecular Systems), I still have plenty of time to eat and peruse more HASS

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT ... . We took a tour of the exhibition, then had some time to ourselves. A ... opera to sit through. Some food pictures, courtesy of Linh V. '13

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  of this: I’ve stepped out of my box. I tend to create patterns ... be applied to. I think that’s one of the greatest strengths of ... needed. It forces us to adapt, and that is an invaluable skill that we all

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff. Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour ... , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big

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

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use ... to wander down to the Porter Room on Sunday morning and grab some of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  of them. i came into mit wanting to be a 14-2 (mathematical economics ... Google Maps. But [annotation note='Of course, there’s other ways of getting ... myself to the schedule of buses and needing to time it just right

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army ... -secret military agent whose patriotic duty was to sit in front of a CRT monitor and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core ... has given rise to a new universe of possibilities for uses of the ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... sleepless, as I try to keep up with all of the readings and do all of the ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  rooms when people try to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we ... get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so ... band all over Boston. I am married to the love of my life and have an

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  report. You can download one off of the website if you need one. Your ... to see from the comments that most of you, while understandably ... knowing that one year from now, you'll be getting ready to take some time of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and ... kid who used to sit on the far left side of my orgo lecture hall (Hi ... give NGOs the chance to work at a much higher level of efficiency: lots

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write ... to try to figure out what's at the edge of the universe. Is there a ... Microsoft, and then go to a career fair, where 90% of the companies will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other ... have been written before by bloggers of yore, and I encourage you to read ... -minute speech on one of them, memorized, citing sources. Decisions were to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research ... microeconomic theory to analysis of public policy. Builds from microeconomic model

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away ... , or any sort of media, tends to do that.   One of my visits was also ... whether to keep walking in the cold and he said something to the effect of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... great website of Scott Hughes, my professor for 8.022. I was only ... way to see what physics is really like, learn a heck of a lot of problem

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006