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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number ... Mitra. So did Mike Short. Apparently, pretty much every one of the several

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet. »Rectal ... of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... an international team have mapped “one of the largest and most complicated structures in mathematics. If printed on paper, the calculation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because it's how problems are solved in the real world, by small teams of smart
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  happened to calculate the radii of the stars and one day a fellow astronomer ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has ... stars nearing the end of their lifetime. The goal of the project was to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  . "I was comfortable with the idea of going to ASU and my mom was ... go to one of the finest schools in the country." Attending school in ... being accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  . During the first week on campus, MIT organizes a lot of activities to ... in the US[/annotation] and to get to know each other before all of the ... get along! Cami quickly became one of the closest people to me, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  -postcard of Marlon Brando, which is nicer to look at than the green plastic pot ... motivation to get out of bed in the morning. Maybe then I'll make it to the ... chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  his study, the calculations of his radiometry, to say nothing of the ... the introduction to E.L. Doctorow's novel City of God. I quote it for ... beyond any ability of ours to measure. What do things look like just at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I ... , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  points, and using that to calculate the velocity of the matter (star, etc ... the big radome dish to map out the rotation of our galaxy by finding the ... program: can a computer be taught to predict the future location of an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... with them — to replace the labor of a person, but still accomplish a task ...  is the study of applied physics mechanics — “how to build things that won

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  because I found the challenges and day to day work interesting. The role of ... different amounts and kinds of responsibilities to PMs and sometimes the ratio of PMs to engineers varies, or the amount of collaboration, or some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... glassblowing, we used glass frit – tiny shards of glass – to apply the colour ... ) to me[/caption] While one of the instructors excitedly explained how

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  even my incredulity, the tides of marathonic food consumption were yet to ... ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly ... way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -delusions of infinite free time”: 7. Rebuild the bridge from pika's balcony to ... It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  . The marker points to the location of the MIT Club of Central Ohio Summer ... Ohio experiences possible and awesome! P.S. to the Class of 2019: make ... The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... the rest of your time to work on the project. Unfortunately, because my ... . Then we'd do all the calculations to figure out cost, waste, production

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  myself as one of the afflicted). That was a funny thing to listen in on ... gave us a breakdown of how our grades would translate to the A-F letter ... A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006