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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  10 (more) reasons why MIT is beautiful part tvte?

  

  Part 1 here (1) Because sometimes when you’re heading home after a ... ) Because sometimes it’s Christmas in April: A photo posted by Michael ... you’re ever disoriented, the Green Building makes a pretty good landmark

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... day, I felt even confident enough to dare and hold a bunny in my arms at ... Puerto Rico, I am a daughter and an adventure-seeking gal ready to soak in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... myself, and I managed to catch myself up in my classes. I made a huge ... take a break. I shouldn’t have scared myself out of opportunities to meet

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse ... , Mass. -- MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  to the community, and each learns in their unique way. Although we can ... , we have a variety of programs to choose from. MIT’s first ... provides students with the opportunity to study and socialize as part of a
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... music I listened to was painfully narrow and my goal in these four weeks is to continue broadening that range with at least 4 albums/mixtapes a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  been said. There was much to reflect on—in one hour, Professor Flowers ... provide models of the human brain, but it takes a human to apply facts about ... , outsource training to machines, and use our time to start mentoring—a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to ... conductor, or even as a waveguide to conduct light. We have many different ... Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  cancer to stick to itself so it was all in a singular location. My ideas ... coming out on things like being a black person in China, language learning ... am a course 20 (biological engineering), and I am in my 3rd year at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  it's guaranteed to be a good night. Until then, I'll just sit around ... fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC lounge Some of the Haus frosh hanging out in one of our suites: In the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lopsided houses in school and haphazardly scribbled drawings to proudly present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a ... up in science. They tell me that they're equally surprised I attend a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  the people living in my suite, we were using it to seal off cell ... world would come to a screeching halt. I think of all this tonight because my friend Ariel '09 is writing a paper for Colossal Failures in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  in Boston, it's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm. Previous Spring Concerts have featured Live, Slick Rick ... , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  among "Outstanding Faculty" in the Business Week Guide to the Best ... and Journal of Portfolio Management. As a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil ... -foundations of institutional change. In order to change practices that comprise

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the ... to create a model for global engagement for students and their partner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  With a 17% increase in applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting only 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in ... The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in ... nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  : $3), you can consume Boston's favorite treat to your heart's (stomach ... example, the New York Times called Toscanini's "the best ice cream in the ... ' Cream * Rock n' Pop Swirl * Tripple Play * Apple Pie a la Mode * Oreo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  cannon, but with a firing range. In order to do that, though, we needed a ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012