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• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  , but is a tenured professor in Math at MIT. (Wow.) [Not as wow as being ... vaguely remember my first day of classes at MIT back in the Fall of 1996. I ... , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? All canned pineapple is cooked. This is why you can use canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people ... my world record low test score with a 40% on the third 6.002 exam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  eyebrow. "Really? How?" He rubs his hands together and squints. A lightbulb ... around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... ." Carl: "HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT????" He thinks I'm a wizard.) We talked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  -- plus 18) to change the policy. :-P (For Karen, below: A legacy is an ... began promoting Adam to me in the most unsubtle way possible, and being a ... later, a bunch of people were sitting in my room gabbing on a Friday night

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  experience is not a limiting factor. In particular, he tries to find students ... reduce the time a patient spends in surgery. Additionally, it can be ... all goes well, this bio-inspired adhesive will be found in a hospital

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  are coming out in a couple hours. Yuliya K. '18 made a lovely post ... overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that ... , if you're a bundle of nerves and it feels like your future is riding on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  Railroad was hardly a ride at all, at least in the traditional amusement park ... in the tunnels as you chugged along, like a dinosaur diorama showcasing ... scents of Random and took it all in again, I felt a bit wistful. There was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Wikipedia: The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary ... Whitney show is generally regarded as one of the leading shows in the art ... didn’t have a particularly strong presence in the selection of works, but

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted in EA

  

  , which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... category, this is an open forum for you to talk. We understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed ... , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because truth is a complicated thing and no one statement can ever capture

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  expand their analytical and quantitative skills and apply a business ... lead a team, manage a complex organization, or found your own company. Fueled by the groundbreaking work of our faculty in such critical areas as
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this ... ’ll meet anyone in the next three months). It’s not like “omg I need a lady ... ’t I?”. I don’t have a lot of friends back here in Milwaukee; I’m gonna

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  how you have those little oxygen masks that pop down from the ceiling in ... -threatening but faaaar more common than losing cabin pressure is having a flight delayed indefinitely. Even in the rare event that the airline is giving out

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will receive a decision ... visit MyMIT and click on the lost password link. There is a similar link

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... actually surprised at how disassembled a lot of things were here   ... ; you're not a real theatre kid if you don't know what this is  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ... barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a soda. At a little place in the airport, I saw a brown colored Fanta

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those ... offered activities ranging from 2x4 Jenga to big screen DDR to a liquid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  SNOW!" Haha, I guess this is what happens when you come from a tropical ... Physics book from some corner in the room* Me: Uhh, the chapter is about ... ... law ... is ... confusing ....." 8:28:30 Me: One and a half minutes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing ... leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... there's such a spark and pep in my voice when I write, a passion and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021