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Blog / Academics & Research
Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.
sorority. Laurie is currently in the process of applying to graduate schools ... CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of thin layer of insulating material called Kapton sandwiched between two -
Blog / Events
Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art
men are out of sight, and I am laughing in the street. I make ... lovely faces: Pri and Mira, '16, with the creator of Khan Academy. Khan talks about how he started out, what he thinks of MIT, and why Khan -
Blog / Athletics
The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.
. (Disclaimer: These photos are in no way intended to discourage you from applying to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools, MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the -
Blog / Admissions
More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.
Answers to some more of the common questions ... . ------------------------------------- What if I don't meet today's deadline? All admitted students who apply ... , hopefully allowing you plenty of time to make a decision before May 1. The -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.
I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I have three sisters. And while I love all of them dearly (am I allowed to -
Blog / Admissions
Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?
You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... Friday! Pretty exciting stuff. Regardless of your political views, I think a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course -
Blog / MIT Life
Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…
travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Belonging Who belongs at MIT?
going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I -
Blog / Extracurriculars
V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers
friend of mine, currently a GEL2, I looked into the program and applied ... applied to this program, and so we all aspire to develop the capabilities of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....
... Once you were here, MIT offered a fine range of Courses (our numbered way ... backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will -
Blog / Events
Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.
, they seemed to have trouble deciding which side of the hallway offered ... was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So, along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM -
Blog / Admissions
40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…
-205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. John Hopkins University Press, 1995. A 1907 ... sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway
-four designers from MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. One semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting ... the other UA Sustainability committees, the audience, and a panel of -
Blog / Events
picture the world my phone's storage space hates me
place on campus and in boston — classrooms, dining halls, dorms, street intersections, parks — evoke moments in the past, or sometimes collections of ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!
in a concert hall an hour away from MIT, a dozen of us chose to go with ... It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of -
Blog / Miscellaneous
The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.
assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious
has given rise to a new universe of possibilities for uses of the ... Matter Group in collaboration with MIT's Department of Mechnical ... tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core -
Blog / Events
Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement
Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out large containers of 'gourmet' fries outside Kresge this afternoon, and saw ... duo was two of the actors from the HBO show Silicon Valley, which a -
Blog / Extracurriculars
CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11
Squadron of West Virginia University to be the National Headquarters of ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... behalf of the society. During these sessions we had discussions with