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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... Chemical Engineering, is our senior design class. We don’t have a thesis, we ... subway map and a complicated football maneuver. So, how did it go? I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  Can you believe we have a GAME LAB? The MIT Game Lab brings together ... is to explore, educate, and engage the public by creating ... -world challenges. Yes, you can make a career out of playing games.
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  !) yesterday that "spring is a tease. It's never as warm as it looks and ... the semester is stressful for everyone. For me, it's a plodding ... from September to November 2. a resilient device, typically a helical

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  transportation) of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience ... the Facebook Group & Page: Facebook is a great place to meet your ... application is complete, you award letter will appear here. There is also a link

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... whole four hours) is just a Bad Idea. The weekend also consisted of a rat

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  little better. I recently got a phone with a camera that is actually pretty ... Some Reflections It's been a long decade. When the 2010s started, I ... roughly fifteenth grade. A lot has changed, but some things remain the same

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  of background info: The MIT Concert Band is a student organization, as ... at any time, which is nice because a huge percentage of MIT students ... literally, as this is what happened to the car wheels: Fortunately, a cheery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  school in a city that is a hub of so much intellectual activity. (And I don ... find out that Professor Lander is (unsurprisingly) booked until much ... amazing Amy Smith, who also has a MacArthur genius grant. What is it with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few times. "Is MIT really like CPW?" The answer is, yes and no. Yes, in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not ... my major). But there are only a finite number of them. My point is ... 's department learns a given subject.   This is not to say that answers

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big ... maybe, Sam is just a big cheater.) I've been thinking about writing this ... "My freshman year at MIT is over" is a bland, unemotional statement. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  , a faculty member, is actually one MIT's Nobel Laureates. He won the Nobel along with two other MIT alumni a few years back. From the MIT News ... So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Physics Students. (The picture is of a snow crystal, taken in a low ... at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a ... surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  could. MIT has been a place where I fell down and did not know how I could ... today. I don't think this is true of MIT: I am not a fundamentally ... long ago. My own blogs are, to me, primarily a benchmark of how I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... bags, a commercial point-and-shoot camera, and some helium. Each rig

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT ... . Sidequest 7: *serious* Beat Imposter’s Syndrome. This is definitely A Thing. I ... many reasons East Campus is the BEST DORM is that it is a 15 second dash

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  a storyteller, and although she is often fond of stating how she ... Professor Maier, teaching is not a one-way street. I believe she thinks that ... historian should, even on-the-spot if necessary. Professor Maier is a master

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  Coming from South Florida, MIT is far away... specifically, 1427 ... back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has ... about everyone, the change is sudden and doesn’t even necessarily hit you

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  Waller and Miles Davis and also how it's been tough work making a living ... over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008