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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  , check. Ability to make R2D2 whirring noises and generate smoke by friction ... pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  difficult to get As in certain classes. However, in 8.02, you're told from the ... actually get assigned a letter grade by your research supervisor for the ... -you-can-eat, but instead of being able to leave after you're comfortably full, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  expected to understand this alphabet soup. Once you get here, though, you’re forced to dip your spoon in and search for the right letter (or combination ... my previous pre-med entry and explore other classes. To get the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  get students thinking at their seats. They responded by adding a few ... 't so bad for the kinetics unit, but by the time we got to gyroscopes ... captions. (This is getting to be pretty challenging.) 5.12 - Organic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to ... because of your scientific passion and not just to get into college. Nick ... really need them and don't have them, your counselor can expect to get a

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

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super-cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  . We changed our method of ball deployment from one by one to all at once ... by working with each other, being introduced to some material in class ... is picked and you have 1 minute to calibrate your robot. The robot then

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  common question I get about the class: no, you do not have to draw your ... website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had another hour or so to ask her questions. She told us how to get good at

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  Hogwarts, students actually get to do practical work with potentially ... it hard to speak your mind. I'm pretty devoted to being part of the ... : Media Theories and Methods, the introductory course for the Comparative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  afternoon. The plan was pretty sound – my flight was supposed to get into Berlin around 11 PM, leaving me plenty of time to get home and get almost a ... , and went to get a coffee from the cafe near my gate. This gave me an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... compelling case for your inclusion among them, please feel free to submit an ... submitted to chris [dot] peterson [at] mit [dot] edu by August 2nd. Good

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  coping method, getting to college and no longer needing something to fill ... documentary about yourself is that you are the narrator and you get to decide ... documentary uses a lot of archival footage and images to get the image across. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  won't renormalize your family's opinion of you as you explain to your 5 ... association of any sort, but thanks to ATS, I'm now Taiwanese by association ... crust to pillow your molars on the soft spongy tissues of dough inside was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  a golf ball moving 1" to start your link and ends by pulling a string AT LEAST 1" with enough force to lift a golf ball. * Your link must be ... ), or use more than a cup of water. * Your link must BEGIN and END by a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... . And then I get up every morning to start the cycle over again. And again

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  activities -- make sure you convey that to us. When you describe your extra ... , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics ... . Furthermore, if your interests don't align with an organization and you pursue

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times ... have used a calculator to convert the times, by multiplying the decimal by 60, twice, or you could have found a website, like this one: http

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It ... ’ve been spoiled by the vast array of options available to me in California and by the home cooking that I’ve come to miss exponentially so, but for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... were the important thing, you could save your tuition money and get your ... how to fail. If you're going to be a practicing scientist or engineer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006