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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  beauty of this place is reason enough to be here – but the actual purpose of my visit to Anaikatti is to work at one of the tribal hospitals in ... .6 kg... Things I learned yesterday: (1) Sometimes passing out is not

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  units mean that this course is a slightly smaller time commitment than the ... company B do when a piece of legislation was passed?). This is my first ... classrooms (although it is quite a walk from my classes along the infinite

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of year, but i am going to guilt you anyway because that is what i am here ... : (This is also proof that my handwriting isn’t always neat. These are also

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  18 is a fine number, especially when it counts years. It's an excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It ... MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  /Writing Experience This is your "portfolio", and is the single most important part of ... more easily than do those for whom the experience is entirely foreign. If ... blogging). However, a blog is not required. Prior experience in the medium

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  academic year is completed, and as such, it's also the time of year that MIT ... " (right) by Richard The (G). (Photos provided by Richard The) Richard is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle ... school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  C/3C Rachel Williams ‘12 My name is Rachel Williams, and I work hard. People on campus might know me as Audrey from Little Shop of ... the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the ... is a Research Associate.  He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  prom, is "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science", and 6.01 is a ... Python>Java is TRUE) I love python, it's so easy to read and it makes a ... their made out of is a cool party trick (at least at the parties I go to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  , and why there is photosynthesis or ATP, but I can’t really tell you too ... a GIR) Oh, physics. This is probably the class I’m least looking ... happy that this class is not graded on a curve, which means what I give is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  semester is this Friday, as is my last physics quiz and the due date for my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  from my alma mater Morehouse College. FYI - That is my shoe on the right ….and even ate some strange fruit (Do you know what this is? No, it is not a lime. However, it does taste like an orange!) I had a blast

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... tools to cut grooves, pockets, round edges, so on and so forth. A mill is ... drill press). The main difference is that you can move the part around

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to explain what MIT is like, not so much to explain what admissions is like ... of my own. A lot of it is standard stuff, stuff that you'll hear all

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  Hello Interwebs, it's me Chris. As you can probably guess from the title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day ... news companies adopting the structure, which is pretty cool as well. And

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into ... . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  Part I: Academics   "You do know that MIT is unlike almost any ... learn in college, anyhow?" By his account she is an intelligent girl with ... miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009