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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now ... the fun of it. "It's the first time we're working together as kind of a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• 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 ... .012 and her TA was Frank Wilczek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the ... anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad ... complexity of patterns and the neck-breaking speed that some people crocheted

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  time as a prospective student. In light of it being the night before CPW ... -Conner Porter Room as part of the BC Bonanza! Super Smash Bros & Other Games ... "]stickers,[/annotation]tote bags, and snacks. This year, I'm on the other side of Midway and helping

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... all of the freshmen here. Aw, why isn't anybody else excited? It's not ... .005 (thermal fluids) we had our most difficult lecture of the entire year

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the ... Brisson with the support of Jacopo Buongiorno and Gerald Wilson, Bryan will ... . Basically, the goal of the class is to design a robot to accomplish certain

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today ... organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of some of the many, many employers on campus today: Central Intelligence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map ... . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got ... functioning work environment. The best part of my job was always working with

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as ... spritely age of 11. I looked through the catalog of extracurriculars

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton ... progression - two emergency vehicles, woot! (I thought of you, Tish.) And second, I'm almost positive that the Princeton Hospital is supposed to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the same or all different. A set must meet ALL of the following conditions ... fillings have all the same number of symbols, or all different numbers of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test ... multiple choice questions in the realms of biology, chemistry, organic ... colleges - but MIT's is very unique!), is one of the many reasons why I love

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it happened that these were the shoes I bought. As I enjoyed the feeling of near-zero friction against the floor tiles, it became pretty clear that the bottom of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane ... less than 8 vectors to break down, the use of double-angle formulas, and ... joking.) Thankfully, the point of all that was to introduce the concept of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Today marks the beginning of the glorious month known as IAP, which ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball which is considered to be one of the most difficult hand-eye coordination

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (i.e., five terms) of college may not be eligible because of our residency requirements. If you have been enrolled in
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about ... to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when ... that I was not looking forward to, but one of the biggest aspects of

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  that they'd had enough of seeing so many other floors' entries in the ... for an entire weekend, flooded the field, and won most of the prize ... floor actually has an Apple Bake Chair. While a lot of people on the other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  , and many of my friends played instruments in the orchestra and in various ensembles, as I imagine many of you will. Some of the best musical moments, however, were those found in the less formal, impromptu picking-up-of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  -opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went ... be buttoned to the buttons on their own side of the coat (folding the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021