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• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... from at other schools. And it turns out that, though all of our offices ... out, all of the IvyPlus schools had cut at all of those layers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  on the grandiose vision of ‘goodness’ I had settled on at the age of ... Charles at midnight. And yet, for all of this, I am still deeply tired ... all ways better than all past versions of myself. I have, at points

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... a list of numbers like 2,3,9,15…, the running sum starts out at 0. You ... answers it computes to be correct, and if at least one of these answers is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  excuse to sit at one of the cafe tables and [annotation note="I was ... there was one leaving at 2:40 AM, then the next one at 5:30 AM. Neither of ... guy at the counter recommended I find a group of people to split a cab

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment ... night, I randomly pull up three of these prompts randomly, to practice the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  at least once my freshman year when I was a part of the Media Lab ... of having a yearbook photographer at the dress rehearsal." And this is ... photo at the beginning of this blog was taken by Nicholas Wiltsie

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  part of my first semester at the institute: 7 classes passed Somehow ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of ... screamed at me when I was not taking notes that it was because of kids like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  just recently came to visit us at the begining of February to screen Be ... well-fed days of my collegiate life. Lunch was at an organic French ... throwing together everything you have in your refrigerator at the end of term

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  sake of getting this deal. At some point, they started requiring a unique ... , you can read the resistance of a resistor by looking at the four colored ... marveled at the rows and rows of independent comic artists, from published

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  never provide. Yesterday, instead of lining up at midnight for the Black ... instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... already have. It becomes part of you. My favorite (and well-used) fleece or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little ... Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this time, I've got plenty of volunteers from a wide array of backgrounds, so ... most of your CPW experience.

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle. Now at first, I was a little confused. I didn't know if this was a

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  engines and ran them at the same time: [] Here are some examples of pretty ... some more and got it go at a max of 750 rpm. Moral of the story is to be ... Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to ... predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  about applications for the next round of fellows will be available at 20 ... Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the "20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows." Though actually numbering 24, all of the Fellows

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  people. FRESHMAN YEAR IS OVER! 1/4 of my time here at MIT is officially ... , passed all of my classes, and am ready to start the next part of life at ... Diffusion, that's what's happening now. Finals, all of them, are

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  . Just saw this article/video on CNN of Prof. Cynthia Breazeal, who works at the Media Lab here at MIT. She gave a talk at the TEDWomen ... ... (that was my uber-clever way of saying "Happy Valentine's Day!")

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011