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• 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 Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by ... another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  plasticky temple of Cafeteria (often accompanied by the brutal rituals of ... , your tired soul is momentarily uplifted by the sight of hearts, stars ... repeat that for emphasis. Conflicts. With. Lunch, the refuge of covert

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

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... . The last year was one of the most intense, incredible, challenging and rewarding of my life. I spent almost every day at the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... MIT email addresses, and even then, you could only see the profiles of ... of social media among today's prefrosh, I guess you could say we were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  ='though, i basically tossed out my hip by the end of this. it felt.. crunchy ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  it? It's asleep, what a waste of processing power. Cloud computing uses ... my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the philosophy behind cloud computing. Cloud computing is the means by which data

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  light! I didn't take picture of the whole process, but I can walk you ... training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill

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

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time ... it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  !!) Currently, “UH-OH!” by Frances Stark is on exhibit there, involving a lot of ... ... by Jeppe Hein There’s a lot of other places I love going around Boston ... One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  complicated processes and provide words of wisdom, but we can’t write about what ... honest. Your application will be read by a small committee made up of AOs ... designed mostly by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  don't need validation. Some kids try to earn the respect of others by ... I've been reading a lot of comments lately about which majors are ... 't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  mechanical energy of a object blah blah blah...assume gravitational potential ... that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of ... 'd include the proof by induction but it's long, tedious, and involves calculus

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  to make a determination of how much energy would be absorbed by a ... research. I'm sure all of you know by now about MIT's Undergraduate Research ... tens of millions of Kelvins. The best way to do this is by blasting the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  our office by November 1. They can arrive and be processed well after ... need to be “sent” to MIT, not “processed,” by the Nov. 1 deadline. Please allow five days for the processing of all

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  - who take advantage of what's around them - MIT's resources are ... MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  (Writing)   Taught by Dr. Steven Strang, Director of the Writing and ... grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  limited to) those listed on our enrichment opportunities page. One of these ... they are currently working on or to begin research now with the goal of ... Resources page. The deadline for submission is September 20th, 2016. Just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  process of writing this blog got me thinking about the question: when was ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023