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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  tech was going to be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las ... kicking in. It's one thing to follow the news on the Internet and tweet at the companies at CES. It's another thing entirely to be there in person

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long ... 12, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It will last until the coin is found, usually sometime Sunday. To give you a flavor of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  repercussions turned out to bite me in the proverbial butt. Thus is the beginning ... rude awakening. 18.01 is much harder than BC Calc. Much much harder in ... know (which, admit it, is what most high school homework is), the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the ... 's national championship. ''It's good to see that being a geek works out in the ... college: Hopes to find a job in sports engineering. Most memorable wind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  , experts in their field. One area that seems to be taking off right now is ... in the MIT 100K competition in 2006. We got to the semi-finals and then ... hacks?) What is your preferred way to the get the tour: on your smartphone

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... weeks ago thanks to the technical Theater Arts faculty in Rinaldi, whom I ... -length musical in only two weeks. It’s definitely the closest I’ve ever come to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  locked in to the dining hall meals. Further still, with so many events ... to go out to eat on the weekend, it is extremely rare that one eats at ... their opposition to the plan (not, of course, to suggest two thirds are in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn ... 't have much to talk about. So aside from answering all of the questions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  students don't have enough holidays, so they added some to the academic calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  HST is in the field of bioinformatics. He uses MATLAB "to analyze data ... stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break ... functionality. He also worked on software to identify the most significant

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... So, there are pretty much five schools at MIT. From most popular ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  of the core aspects that caused me to work hard in high school. I would ... , but it’s like 3 in the morning and social norm requires me to smile and ... one of the most amazing openings to change the world. Now if you are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  green grass in Killian. (Photo credit to the wonderful Preeti '15) Most ... about myself in the process. After all, it's only when we're pushed to our ... . Enjoy the little things in life. Whether that be getting to the T stop

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... this entry: what is IAP? The one-sentence, in-a-nut-shell version that I ... working on my UROP in the Langer Lab - I actually wrote most of this entry

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  "Professor" in the US.) My lab advisor is Dr. Piyajit Watcharasit, and her ... this dichotomy in which you have the power to either save the world or ... -sized, in fact, at least, in terms of cyclotron. The final machine is about a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  applications in capacitors! It is quite the multidisciplinary project! What I enjoy the most about the work I’m doing is just relatively how little I ... actively participating in discussions on how to alter the experiment that

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  you write an essay about yourself? If the answer is yes to four or more ... either at my school or the local library that I could get to on foot in 10 ... … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  next to it. Honestly, this is just an incredible sight in the middle of a ... architecture because the old architecture has bullet holes in it." This is not ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  . When it comes to the internet the key is to have it respond to you ... -space-with-a-soul-with-fpac/ Design is everywhere. Like most things, you just need to know where to look ... changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I ... to eventually turn in the problem set incomplete. Basketball practice ... ’t click for me. I had to think so much on the court I could barely move. I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018