Search

Search Results

• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. ET. To view the live stream, click on this link ... up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on ... description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the Colbert Bump MIT's Riley Crane talks DARPA Challenge on ''The Colbert Report''

  

  Remember when MIT beat out teams from around the world to be the first to find all 10 hidden red balloons in DARPA's balloon challenge? Well Dr. Riley Crane, the team leader, was interviewed on "The Colbert

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  ). Are there other kinds of stories you'd like to see on ZigZag? Things or people you'd like to know more about?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up ... has been staying up until all hours of the night trying to refine his ... situation. Outside, there were a few robots on display: The actual

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the best on the planet. Mathematics provides a language and tools for ... topology, to applied mathematics areas such as combinatorics, computational
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  posting tutorials on YouTube. Three years later Sal left his job as a hedge fund analyst to start Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization created to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application So long, extraneous passages of florid prose.

  

  Brevity is wise. ...but I'm not the one being affected here. What are your thoughts?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  . Installation runs November 11th to 17th Commissioned by the MIT Committee on ... I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... doing great on the climate change front. Here's another one by the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... chatting, Akash got a call on his mobile phone from another MIT '09, Anthony. Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  that good stuff isn't handed to students on a silver platter, but for ... seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics

  

  hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  —for example, last week a group of FASAPers embarked on a trip to the American ... ducklings) to Harvard Express T’s. On this particular FASAP trip, we ... ominously thick package that included everything from housing lottery to

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  heard a barely audible groan from right over your left shoulder? Students ... , doesn't see the zombies as a threat, forcing hackers to help protect the ... convenient and easily accessible form of defense. Some are oblivious to the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the MIT Interview keep b r e a t h i n g

  

  :08 Our deadline 0:22 What happens during an interview 1:30 What to wear 2:16 How much does the interview matter?? 4:16 What if I bomb the interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  completely missed this season and now I can't believe my eyes! How is Taylor, a ... -culture to me! Please and thank you.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms see Gloria's post

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/joint-post-a-guide-to-dorm-gyms/

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” see kidist's post :)

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/joint-post-welcoming-you-to-here-at-mit/

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1 AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005