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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  instructor for 8.033 - General Relativity - who had their exam in the same hall ... in a recent post by Hamsika - as part of MIT's Four Weeks For America ... prepare for the winter, and that "about half…live in hogans and/or house

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end ... for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  still turn out well for you in the end. Who do you admit from the waitlist ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  books in the MITSFS library. Clubs aren't the only way for literature fans ... successfully wrote a novel for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in ... a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  staying in Cambridge for Thanksgiving, and I understand why now (so much ... semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for many hours and in one more hour (it's midnight rn) I will drive to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  final papers -- due in mid-June -- to count for the majority of our marks ... , or UROPs. For the 6 courses I'm taking this semester, I have 1 End-of-Semester exam I'm taking the day before I fly home, and 2 session exams in mid

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... year since 2004 while directing the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms ... (almost) anything: it's a semester-long crash course on making for those who

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art ... expenditures for 4.111 materials will be manageable as I can no longer depend on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  easier for you to tell us, in your words, exactly who you are. Yes, the ... do daily information sessions. This summer they have been in Lobdell in the Student Center (a building otherwise know as W20). It feels odd for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  the interviewer will evaluate you in the process and what role the interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  is the first time in my life that I've participated in Lent. For the ... practices for analysis and design of manufacturing enterprises. Emphasis is on ... include process physics and control, design for manufacturing, and

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of ... positive thing from my perspective. Because it was neither in the end for me ... we're proud of you for getting to this point in a tough year. And with

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  progress. We expect that this will turn into a senior thesis (in physics) for ... got to be in California. Classes prepare you for all the research (that ... uninterrupted hours in the lab. Fridays are open lab days: opportunity for groups

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  for. People invest in a variety of different boots. In addition to the ... . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... warm (and dry) in a Boston winter has been an adventure. It’s been a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my first week here. People are in general really nice and the food, so far

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  around our house in New Jersey:     Oh boy, it looks real bad in NJ.  The ... good thing MIT isn't in the Northea...oh wait...       ... us when we're sick, Is covered in snow, but only a few inches thick

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final ... DEFINITELY in this building, and we DEFINITELY do not have exams." Ten seconds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... aborted experiment in homemade black bean burgers is sublimated into a thick

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009