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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... in AP Calc BC, and was kind of let down when I got a 98 on my third ... hacking…."  Whenever I consider joining a new activity, I think of it almost

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  of beds dropped on the side of the road, cheap furniture selling fast ... ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  recently been through the application process but is now on the other side of ... began we realized that all of the font was in Times New Roman which is ... website is interesting and raises the number of applicants, and how Web 2

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas ... Georgia Tech, encompasses an impressive range of new and evolving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  and also the critical dependence of engineering on experimentation ... importance of experimentation. I'll end with a story that he shared, based on ... teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio, Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were ... Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I ... . From now on, I'll have to stop promising to come back regularly - you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  . To learn new skills RT requires skills in so many areas. One of the ... /LOX engine ready for hot-fire, and is currently working on the design of a ... summer of designing Structures and Composites parts. Simulation - On a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  on FTX’s (Field Training Exercises). These are 3 day long ... squads of around 9 with people from other ROTC programs like Northeastern ... .) packed on our back. Suddenly, there’s a mission. There’s an

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  Here's the long-awaited guest blog entry on the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME ... is placed on long-term retention of learning, has been a good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are ... Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT tradition.  Every freshman class has a Ring Committee, who put in tons of time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  , and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the ... awkwardly on the side taking a picture; the camera's hiding my face. harhar ... Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  ec culture will be afterwards, what new life it’ll take on. i could go on and on and on, but i won’t. [annotation note='i think the piece of ... . if you want a huge collection of stories, this website is also good

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  taking it online in the middle of the woods on two hours of sleep (yes. I ... [/annotation]. On the other end of the academic spectrum, [annotation note ... , Reading and Writing Short Stories. On the first day of class he made it

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  event of the FAST Festival. On the evening of May 7th, the Charles River ... BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... are 91 pieces of public art on campus. I feel like I”m back in art

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  about the prospect of working with her (pictured on the left). In early ... seemed really keen on the project and almost immediately suggested one of ... . Beth was about to finish her PhD and move on to a new position

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  . *happily shows us his set up for the virtual semester on the second day of ... he was commenting on the strange nature of virtual classes, where in a ... does also a lot of really cool research and you can check out his website

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  throw at them. This is why finals at MIT are a whole new kind of special ... which are kind of crude and can readily be found on Facebook (I'll leave ... words "critical point." This reminded me of something. While many are now

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  of a Showgirl, and after that, Taylor Swift on shuffle. The New England ... packing, I hadn’t brought: a. a change of clothes, b. new socks, or c. long ... coolest person ever and leads rafts on the weekends as a change of pace from

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025