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• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  there were only a couple of hallways and none of them had any forks; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT ... a mailing list to know where to get the free food), and of course

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza ... sped up snippets of the reversed erasing clips to match them up with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the ... you leave the paper resumes at home in favor of "dropping them" online ... Barbot was Dropbox, one of MIT's favorite startups. Just ask Tim! I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  ***UPDATE*** If you're taking the SAT on the makeup date of 11 ... are currently processing thousands upon thousands of documents ... morning of October 31. We apologize for the inconvenience. Application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  -aided design program. After Banks, one of my teammates, spent an incredible amount of hours spent on the computer, our blasters, if I may say so ... of you probably know what it's like to work on large projects like

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles ... isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... of the types of things that happen at MIT. There was an incident over

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown ... a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... are still missing parts of your application, fax your materials to 617

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the ... the status of your application components. The Application Tracking will ... along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  . (I will say that I like the subject matter more than that of 5.112 - Principles of Chemical Science, which I took last semester.) But my professor ... lyrics to "Deprotonated", the chemical rendition of Avril Lavigne

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  -minute trek from West Campus to Walker Memorial, where a lot of dance ... astounding!! i'm currently living near the MIT Museum, which is a couple of ... cheese"]Roxy's[/annotation] because of the distance, or when i'd UBER to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was ... , or anything in between happens. Before I walked out of Burton Conner, I ... rain! OH, is that actually water falling out of the sky?! And it falls

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... .  The good news is that you probably already own plenty of baselayers and ... and L.L.Bean duck boots are popular.  Since I do a lot of hiking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and ... to MIT. She loves the EECS department because of the phenomenal ... curriculum for the Class of 2011, and Hanhan explained the current system and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  . There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I ... , because I am having horrifying thoughts of smashing into sidewalks, cars ... from a place where gloves are like a weird, unnecessary type of sock. 7

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... the inner workings of a company I have friends working all around the ... in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP). Both of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  : Real Analysis (18.100A) Physics II (8.02) Fundamentals of Programming ... my moods. 90% of my stress from earlier in the quarter (and last ... business. I did nothing almost all of spring break (except binge watch Black

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  10 (more) reasons why MIT is beautiful part tvte?

  

  long day of classes, you turn around and see this: A photo posted by ... ’re neck deep in a 2.006 thermal-fluids pset, there’s light at the end of the ... _cheung_) on Feb 10, 2016 at 3:34pm PST   (bonus) hello, class of 2020

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  's Tumblr. Lifting weights, riding bikes, making things out of clay ... ago, when I went up to him humming with nervous energy (a mix of ... . I'll rely on my practice instead of my head. But now, in so many ways

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... you. The reason I’m off campus is actually for a class that’s part of ... where I spend most of my time, take a deep breath, look up at the stars

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it ... 't even fully erased! One of the nice and amazing things about Diamond ... thrill of throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park. Check out the photos

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010