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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  was a set of encyclopedias. Then the internet became popular, so HA!) I ... engineering minor instead. Up until the middle of my sophomore year, I still ... . What particularly interests me about bioengineering is in the area of

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  brains and look at the neurons, study the resonance frequency of whiskers ... half agreed unanimously that it was one of the best classes they'd taken ... . But I heartily recommend Van Evera as a professor. The name of the class

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted Student Welcome and Closing Show—two of the flagship events of CPW. Jeremy ... , wisdom, and honesty about some of the tough parts of MIT, so I asked him if

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... the number of neat things you get involved with, the more things you

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The town of Nice was originally a Greek settlement named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work calendar, Thursday was "Fronleichnam," or the feast of Corpus Christi. Then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... 're going to be important for the rest of the class. In 5.12: Organic ... , affectionately called ICE and ICE-T, taking all of the concepts from the last three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student ... ’t remember the event that “shattered the rock of theocracy” from high school US

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  feel like I've experienced both ends of activity levels: doing all the ... reaction. During the winter, I found out through the news that the Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show of all time, was ending its

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... . Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour ... . They are learning about the wonders of Dunkin Donuts and Subway. After

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence ... ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  . This man taught the first ten lectures of 7.03 (Genetics) and is the head of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph ... of mutations in the shibire gene in drosophila – when you heat them up

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  ..." Thing Two Caroline, my friend from marching band, and one of like the five ... admittedly short life. "Hush, and then: the curtains of clouds parting, the hands of thunder clapping. The universe poured down in a divine onslaught

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  of the things that seem the most puntable are the things that make me ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and ... from a distance. Here’s one of the stories my parents tell about the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  essentially the lovechild of an etch-a-sketch and a drill press. Using two dials ... , cutting grooves, notches, and all sorts of neat shapes into it. The "CNC ... the top of the dome, because I'm pretty sure there are some. I also put

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of ... ". Among the key issues discussed was the concept of neutrality- what it means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it ... here lately. But it’s not like we’ve just been working. With the end of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  With almost no effort, the three of us were able to venture out into the ... all necessary transfers and the track numbers of all the trains, so ... our way to three separate landmarks within the space of two hours. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... —to document the trip. Along with the camera, I carried roughly fifty rolls of ... rolls of color negative (C41) and slide (E6). As soon as I returned to the

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  have more school ahead of me, but it just will not be the same. although ... relatively narrow area of research, i will also miss the opportunities i have ... strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014