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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ). The second floor of the west parallel of East Campus is named Putz ... /geometry (hopefully). Much of the material from this section is drawn from Michael Hartl ... around the circle) and diameter (length across the circle). The ratio of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... staff (who works in admissions, maybe, or in the Office of Undergraduate ... campus, with the exception of the freshmen who are living in French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  DiffEq) math subject So, that's a total of 156 units beyond the General ... going to have to take close to the same large number of units as before ... /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  , despite being amazingly prepared to bask in the sunshine of the West Coast ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word ... maybe one of those side-of-the-mountain tunnels with walls of dirt, a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  time on fifth west, and am nervously anticipating the thrill of new ... touch, old-school; a bang of thunder on the west horizon, hair and wind ... Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... . However, all of the assignments were due at the same times and the amount of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... Chi Omega. Anyway, the point of this entry was to introduce you to yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... the Class of 2012 (!), so don't be offended if we're not around when you ... MIT '11s? Here's the Class of 2011 Profile: Incoming Freshman Class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  , the right side offers a daily glimpse of the culture and output of MIT ... before.) The page has been well-liked and well-used. But research of ... processing power. ... Over the course of this journey, the creative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... -finals bonfire. Our notes for the semester were the guests of honor. I remember

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student resources are available?

  MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... myself looking at my peers, feeling the painful sting of mediocrity. My

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting ... of other MIT people) increasingly live on different ends of the Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  House, and the thought of having to feed all of them, plus visitors from ... charcoal from; I had no answer. Turns out that the UA was delivering a bit of ... anticipated) I had a list of names and numbers of people who had offered to help

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso ... Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I ... ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 99 degrees is 99 degrees. End of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013... Jonte '13 ... scheduled to graduate in the top one or two percent of their class," said Michael Mallory, executive director of the Ron Brown Scholar Program. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years ... students that meet their criteria. But, the chances of them randomly coming ... website or talk to friends and neighbors to find the name of specific

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year ... arbitrary demarcation of time, removed from the actual content of our lives

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  unironically, wholeheartedly believe that Kanye West is one of the greatest ... West and his music. He is thought provoking and arguably one of the most ... 's up to y'all. Y'all the future." (28:01) This is just a snippet of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019