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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  classes is particularly blurred in the math department, where you often don ... general and MIT life in general a bit later this long, wonderful weekend. I ... DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  states where it is illegal to do what at a gas station? 5. What famous 1972 ... discussed it in STS.001, a class that he designed three decades ago. He replied, with a laugh, "I actually told him to put that in the speech! I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... : Mary Chin earned her BS in civil engineering and a MEng in environmental ... treadmill. And the world is a better place for it.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed ... off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I ... . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  Charles is a very dirty and very old river. As Wikipedia tells us: Despite ... old age. But no longer, Frodo. Evil is stirring in 6.002. The Exam has ... mate Mirat '08. People ask me, is MIT really the third ugliest school in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you ... wee hours of the night, With my 13.01 class in Procrastination, scheduling was tight. Along those lines, in class, in clubs, in rooms, I often

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... interesting things, and is interested in the future. MIT attracts amazing ... . And on top of all that, Will is a fan of my field, Artificial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  was so much fun! I did take one pretty bad fall on my chin that left a ... In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  . While totally awesome, this is also a really terrible plan. Luckily, he ... . I'm a complete sucker for historical stuff like that, which is why I ... MIT these days is pretty up on the latest social media, as is

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  that your uncle is in fact crazy.) Cutest observer ever: A note ... .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... I'M DONE WITH FALL CLASSES! and am now back home in London, doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

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  MIT doesn't provide names or contact information for current students. To learn more about MIT from a student's perspective, please spend time on our site learning about academics and life at MIT. Through our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate ... to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... up clarifications of concepts we learned in class, I get a slew of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new ... its launch in 2009, it has maintained a straightforward and uncommon ... see here is just a beginning; we will be eager over time to find new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do homeschooled students apply?

  MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students and these students have been successful and vibrant members of our community. We don't have separate requirements for homeschooled applicants. Homeschooled
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  conventional solar concentrators. Professor Baldo is a principal investigator in ... solar, battery, and wind technology, and a LED light experiment. Below is ... blowing and power is needed; and can also be used for mooring a floating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  -- one who is performing a UROP "Grad students in my lablove having UROPs ... subtleties of group theory in a rigorous yet accessible manner." But, well, I ... food options that he chooses Anna's Taqueria, a cheap burrito place in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  being in a hospital while also managing being a student at MIT:   1 ... are stupid   3. Sleep just doesn't happen in a hospital   ... and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a ... deceive you. Kresge is 1/8 of a sphere. I once walked by it and remarked to ... meeting everyone who will be there (here)! In the meantime, I'm off to a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  session, woke up in the evening, had a nice dinner with my friend, and then ... is hell, i have descended to the 9th circle and am hangin' out in the ... 14.121 homework and studying for a 14.121 final exam that is worth

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in ... engineering, learned that the school is interested in his football talents as well. "I feel this is a great opportunity and not just because of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006