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• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the ... was important to stay in shape and to keep my mind off school for some ... the team! If you're interested in walking onto the team for the 2015

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... was turning in a p-set for 5.111...or 5.12, I can't remember at this ... The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some <

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure out, others aren't. For instance, and It's pretty safe to say that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of study at MIT, what must be it be like for all these freshmen who grew up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... degrees Fahrenheit in Miami for a couple of days (yes, in Miami, water ... walking in preparation for spring semester.

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  culture at MIT. So, since my entire life in recent memory (also known as the ... spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  interval training for the first time in maybe a year or so. Now might be a ... long time. At least, that's how it was for me in the act of running. Once ... also block off certain hours in your schedule during preregistration to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  Einstein field for the championship. A quarter mile away, in the convention ... I said then, ...FIRST (which stands for For Inspiration and ... MIT professor Woodie Flowers back in 1989, before most students now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  bagels smothered in cream cheese. Also, I had caviar for brunch. This is now on my resume, in case you were wondering. For her main course ... This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  for you and all your posterity. In Soviet Russia, string second ... in its evocations of tacky yet luxurious department-store sofas. Of ... inflection, perhaps in a context that makes absolutely no sense. Like: “Yo, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... operate, events with free Bertucci's, hallway colloquies at four in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  eyes closed for this part so I didn't really see it in action, but the ... on this team had to lay in a freezing pool for hours in order to test ... for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  recommendation for them -- do not do this (these requests rarely happen in the ... recommendation form. It is also okay -- common, in fact -- for teachers to write ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an ... night, a few friends convened in my room for a harmless game of Taboo. A ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  happen in the film. That’s right – after running several concurrent simulations on an MIT-inspired neural network (i.e. after thinking about it for a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  public policy class (in my major), an accounting class (in Sloan), and a ... Kissick, who conduct the course in a discussion format. As moderators, they ... policy problems in general. I think what I’ve enjoyed most this month is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at ... ,000 tiny holes (about 70 um in diameter) using a chemical etching process The ... up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  Jewish, but a few (such as me) aren’t. Many of our songs are in ... all necessary. In the past, most of the non-Jewish members had at least some connection to Judaism; they auditioned for Techiya because they

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011