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• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in ... the internet, for those who just want a hug feel free to add your ... Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  science fiction books and then create a final project based off an idea from ... robot arm. A robot arm! As in, not a human arm, but a robot arm. Like ... Episode V? He replaced it with a robot arm. And guess what. This is a robot

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  also is remarkably active in exploring innovations to classroom-based ... . This may sound like we simply fall back into a well-worn rut, but in fact MIT is quite remarkable in its constant pedagogical experiments and

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  're talking free money). A lot of times the actual payment is much lower than ... work we're doing. Another picture is of Tish '10, a student in the MIT ... devoted to this dome. Oh, this is a lead-in to the hacking speech. "Harmless

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... Diana Husmann '08, a junior in Course 8 (Physics), and Ellen Spertus '90

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  with free drawing software"]"Photoshop"[/annotation] a lot in my free ... I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the Internet with meme classics like Nyan Cat and Gangnam Style. Memes play a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading ... gender discrimination among its women faculty in the 1990s. Below is an ... teaching positions (a number that had not changed in ten years) and zero

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K ... the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... can pin another bib on Veena '06. Don't let our smiles fool you. It is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  were placed in dorms based on a ranking form they filled out. From Aug 31 ... bit of time working on Burton Conner's website, which is a true work of ... conner...my god, is she a beauty. from b to shining c, burton conner offers

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  So about a month ago, back when I actually wrote blog entries and stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates ... in her room and didn't even realize that... a few...had leaked out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  hard.” A little-known variation is, “Get your car stuck in mud, go apple ... into more free giveaways than can fit in a single dorm-provided desk, a ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also

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

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early ... our community. Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in ... with other students from diverse backgrounds in a colloborative manner

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  of recommendation. In some cases, you may ask a teacher who you ... humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a letter is ... do to help us (and you) is make explicit in their letters any
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  This post is for those who are moving on from this blog today, May 1 ... process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... choice is yours -- which school is the best fit for you? We knew coming in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  . Consider a droplet that is initially 1 mm in diameter. Its surface area is increased by a factor of 1.75 while falling. What is its change in free energy ... a mutation in a nuclear gene preventing growth on glycerol is gly1

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help ... . Although my belief is that one should pick a living group based on whether ... th East alum who just moved to California and was back in town for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  't see the genius in that one yet). Anyway, how is the music department at ... . Exactly how good is MIT's music? Well, I've performed in the Concert Choir, a large, 90-ish member free-for-all choir, and the Chamber Chorus, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  hospitality"--Houston is a place of lawn chairs and film screenings in open ... thing I can think of is Taipei, after spending a month in Hong Kong, but ... -class beatboxers look like on a Friday afternoon in October: This is what world

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  a semester to pursue any research question we can imagine. This is a particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in ... based off of my conclusions, then wrote a final research paper on the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  design a CPU from scratch. 6.2050 is like 6.1910 but much more hands-on and ... everything in 6.2050 is built into physical hardware. Plus, my advisor ... , but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023