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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... the empty seats had half an unconscious person in them that I really ... depending on traffic and wait time between connecting busses. I usually prefer

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between ... study breaks and review sessions! That's the LCC in a nutshell. I'm happy ... the next thing in life via the infinite corridor is the basement of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? At MIT, we seek to develop in each ... the betterment of humankind. How have you improved the lives of others

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  am particularly emotional, in which case I will resort to “PSET” or ... difficulty of the class. Since I have limited experience in anything except ... will. Then I just print out a paper copy to hand in while the file is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  students in GEL program, and I love the opportunity to meet students from a ... graduating student am particularly interested in. I learned a LOT about ... understanding how your users think. I think the relevant quote from [one of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  highest score achieved in each section. We do this in order to consider all applicants in their best light. Students should report official full sittings ... exams taken, and MIT will consider the super-score in our review process.
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  the competing teams; I also expect you will learn how one of MIT ... is tonight! Every year we blog about 2.009, a capstone course in ... you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the ... in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to ... ; It was incredible to hear how 15 different MIT students interpreted the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  Not these guys, I hope. Hopefully, instead you'll call these two ... to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what they do. I've never seen a more packed Kresge. Not even for a Logs

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  back home, and I would like to thank everyone who helped in the effort to ... EST To: baxterthieves Cc: burton1 We have the cake, as requested, in ... they want) (it's pretty much the most amazing cake i've ever seen) From

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers ... several-month homestay, which I imagine will be an adventure. The hike

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe ... I was thinking recently about the mixed messages that come through ... Laureate Frank Wilczek. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 at the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  figured out how to do it though." Me: "How?" Jon: "Here, look what I did ... -night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping ... build cool things and truly embraces MIT's Mens et Manus mentality. I don ... that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... get glasses. They look like this: Unfortunately, I was deliberately ... double rainbows! - but a few that appear in a star-like pattern and radiate

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Last week, I posted the webcast of the final presentations for 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), a capstone product design course in Course 2 (MechE). As promised, I wanted to follow up with a recap blog post this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the ... about this, since (as stated above) I was in band in high school. The band ... I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  about my semester once I'm back in sunny Taiwan and has caught up on sleep ... so that the chicken legs are 3/4 submerged in the water. 7. Place ... evaporate until you begin to see crater-like indentations in your rice about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  . Hasbro is AWESOME! I mean, let's face it, I work in a toy factory. Anywho ... discount I got him at work for $7.00. My work has a toy store in it, does ... agreements and the threat of prison I can't tell you a whole lot about it, but

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008