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• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  building 3, on the first floor, room 08. Main campus is considered to be the ... on the south, Massachusetts Avenue (Mass Ave to the natives) on the ... 77 Mass Ave. It may be the summer, but we students have places to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total ... are limited to 8% of the class, not 10%. There's other weird stuff in ... The Tech published an article today that contains some significant

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  running our comparator on the same 2 numbers 40 log N times. For ALG to work ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  personally; (4) able to take on the challenges of grad school; (5) able to have ... accomplishments you have in the field. Ability "to take on the challenges of grad ... committee's image of you as someone with the abilities to "take on challenges

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... lasercutter! The newest one on campus is across the hall, and it is one of three

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  .009. I want to be back at MIT and swing on the rope swing in the East ... spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to be cOnSuMeD by the lab. ENDLESS. Helper functions. Helper functions for

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone ... Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs ... course at MIT, and I need no further proof than to note that the class was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  ; 137 words to waitlisted teams; and 459 words on required forms. The ... to fall too far down the blog rabbit hole). On their experiences ... the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is ... 's resident advisor.) He's actually doing some pretty cool work on the security ... So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  , so I finally have a chance to update you on what happened. The banquet ... decades) to scale up those inventions to have a tangible impact on the world ... from taking up an entire room to fit on a chip the size of your fingertip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  Wait wait! Stop! Hold the presses! I have one more thing to add to ... come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever ... : introducing... the 2011 CPW Scavenger Hunt!! You will have 4 days on the campus

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory?

  The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT focuses the talents of a diverse array of brain scientists on a single mission: unraveling the mechanisms that drive the quintessentially human capacity to
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  info I want to give away on the internet about this particular subject ... invention on the internet, and it's called Omegle! The theory behind it is ... our 60" HDTV and server, when we decided to tell the random stranger

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  in, 2002, he has worked on fundamental improvements to the efficiency ... WebcastHere is the White House Press Release: BACKGROUND ON THE PRESIDENT ... Moniz, Director of the MIT Energy Initiative, will lead the President on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... once we know it; we'll likely make that announcement on the blogs late ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  like I'm writing. It feels like words are appearing on the page. When it stops I look at the words I've typed and I see my own vomit on a screen ... the word. literally, african american refers to people who live in or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green ... Longtime readers (i.e., those of you who didn't first tune into the blogs around the time the application went up) may recall Ceri, our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  the truth? I was up at 7 today to work on a prelab and then went to a 9 ... at 1 where I worked until 5:15 and went back to my dorm but on the way ... you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018