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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech research. Here's a few of the nanotech labs I'm aware of: The Laboratory for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places ... the huge amount of art we have on campus, and some things I never ... . Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the ... history of being a feared team in the NEWMAC. I’m sure the friends and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  externally. (Here is a list of all the letters/symbols that may appear on an internal grade report.) You'll notice the usage of STP freshman fall. Rather ... overestimate of the time commitment of this class, which had a weekly 1 hour

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of ... left: a UROP at the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies various ... institution in the world and it feels like I've made nothing of it. Three years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  and teaching at MIT. Above: Glorianna Davenport of the Media Lab ... remarks, not in the sense of consuming media "out there" but in her reliance ... stretching the visual capacities of storytelling, creating narrative networks

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... .” With the exception of another friend actually from New Jersey, people ate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  75% of the pset left to do. I chug along and get through most of the ... make it to the restaurant, grab some food from what’s left of the ... sandwich, eat, and rest before the first segment of the competition, the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... (who have the best record in baseball right now), the University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  how my mother "recycled" the reverse sides of our old drafts of papers ... brain be put to better use than a repository of the Ruff Ryders Anthem ... Kinect for Autonomous Flying" - one of the more awesome Kinect hacks I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per ... number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... of secretly plundering the game, he decided to go to the Ontario ... some extremely moral person because I didn't take advantage of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  was an extraordinary year across the admissions landscape, with some of ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT students were taking out the Tesseract - a solar powered car that took third

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the ... Gramophone Hall of Fame, has won a gazillion awards, is in the Royal Swedish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  from the wait list. This year, we had a record-high percentage of ... parlance as the "yield") of over 74 percent, which left very little space to admit students off of the wait list. Today, around 5PM Eastern

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  some photographs of the hack on a sunny autumn day. (also below is a chronology of other awesome hacks from fall 2015)   The MIT ... on the Dome 11/10: Fallout 4 Release 11/1: Hogwarts Institute of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  , because my dorm room was on the first floor, I had a great view of the ... tour of the Humans and Automation Lab (HAL). Even though I wasn't really ... speaking - all the way from the Fourth of July to HAL to "Daisy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices ... The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit ... negative impact on your chances of admission.
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into. I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the ... would have been the kind of math that causes a ringing in your ears and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008