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  [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster by Zack I. ‘27

  

  only one screw at first, giving everything a necessary degree of freedom ... would divide the angular displacement of each unit into even 30 degree ... elevation of the track at specific points. Then, angled 2x4s called track

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 18, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that ... , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 ... CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in person. The fabled Weather Machine did its job on Thursday, so at least you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  working really hard for an MIT degree. MIT kids are really good at delayed ... the percentage of MIT students living at dorms owning a TV set ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  " advice about life at MIT, only one tidbit of which I remember clearly. "If ... enough ago that few of you were reading my blog. A little bit of context ... of Peeto '01 and his lovely fiancee Meaghan. He's one of our zanier

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis ... , and students of MIT: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT ... Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  Overheard at MIT (from sometime Spring 2012 - I've been keeping a collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... the form and the coefficients? I used erf and it gave me both at the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport ... things. Yida and I moved out together at the beginning of the summer and ... classes. A lot of people are already moved in at this point, but I always

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  understandable; but in the early 1990s an even higher percentage of the students at ... I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at ... showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  research the history of gender discrimination and Title IX at MIT. I first ... the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT showed further ... of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Arizona, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness ... , I was unfazed. Not shocked at all. The first thought that came to my ... hours, because I simply didn't feel capable of confronting reality. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience ... interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  of being in a fraternity is visiting chapters at other universities ... Venice. Three of our brothers lived in LA, so we had a barbecue at Alex ... two weeks of travelling, we are finally at my home stop, New Jersey. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality ... 's mother at a little league game--that alone is worth the price of admission ... ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Cuisine" "India offers so many new and exciting things, one of the most ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working ... technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’m taking this term. I’m taking a total of 45 credits, the fewest credits I’ve ever taken at MIT. Part of the reason for that is that one of my classes ... .1 lbs/g. Their column was also the lightest of all, coming in at a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  seemed that way at first. I walked out of it with a horrible sinking ... . I had been able to confidently complete at least some of that material ... . In a class of.... 100? Wonderful. Hey, at least I get a blog post out

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009