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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... ), what MIT's role ought to be in national and global energy policy, the ... -- "Impossible is Nothing"), and the way we're taught to think rather than

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  -collegiate-ness. If that's not the best idea ever, I don't know what is. It's meant to ... decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the ... hope about the ice cream half-expected the ice cream to be at the top of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  fellowships (AHHHHHH!!!!!!), and said goodbye to the NRAO, and the building in ... , thanked Ed Murphy, and said goodbye to McCormick, the building in which I ... longer living in Charlottesville. I said goodbye to the brick house on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  have never taught it before, so the most honest answer is "I don't know ... approximation; I'll adjust things the second time I teach it. My intent is to ... statistics from the Tech today, let me paraphrase it in one Marilee Jones quote

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  anywhere and there's so much stuff to do for college kids. I love that the ... , have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy ... people will actually laugh and won't shun them to the library. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the ... ordeal was over. (The same will happen to most of you!) Things aren

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  - it is in this spirit that we, the MyMIT bloggers, seek to honor MIT ... . Content caters in large part to the demands of the audience, who can email ... features. Oh, I learned so much in the months that followed. First, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year ... excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for the forthcoming admissions cycle. As you may know, in the past ... . There is no preference in our process for early applicants. We use the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in ... everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  's what matters the most. And in the end, I just want to say thanks to the ... remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... week, Ben came back to MIT to say one final goodbye to everyone in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• 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 getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no

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

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  failed me! But why? Linear algebra to the… rescue? TL;DR, rotations in 3D ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... in true MIT fashion, I leave the proof as an exercise to the reader

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  39 tabs open in Chrome (which is apparently the threshold at which the ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word ... uninterestingly benign. No face-sized spiders in sight. Most of the staircases in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  amateur astronomer in Colorado, appears to have one of the most accurate ... written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight ... Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  credit to Mitra Many of you have seen that the MyMIT portal is down. No ... everything in the allotted spaces in the application. To answer your question ... : Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I have to admit, the Pittsburgh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior ... of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  ; to the contrary, it is filled to the brim with creativity, as Chris ... awesomeness, in fact, that I decided to experience it the next year as an ... that to begin with. The experience and community last much longer than

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... was, glaring me in the face, the luminescent fact that MIT wants you to ... 's not whether you get in or not that truly matters; the important thing is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009