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  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  This week, the new MIT freshman class begins arriving for orientation ... classes at all, who were homeschooled, and who did A Levels (but none who ... number #1 overall winner of international Olympiad competitions, and many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... arts college, a large flagship state university, a couple of community ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  Counterclocks? We jumped at the offer, even though it would cost dearly in our own ... "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  -all-definite list of things that I want to explore during my time at MIT, arranged ... speaks to my curiosity about the fundamental working of the universe, and I ... The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  -quantum alternatives did not fit at all. Finally, at the end of IAP (a week ago), I ... somehow still ended up winning one of the categories. At this point, I knew ... disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  already looked at this, but if you haven’t: here’s the complete list of REX ... of the dorms, and an even better time to have fun. We at East Campus ... / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  It's definitely the busiest time of the year for application reading (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new ... reading application files today at the Diesel Cafe, I realized that a woman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  range of social and cultural activities that round out a student’s life at ... , which offers us a marvelous vintage tour of the Institute, was produced by ... prospective students, to showcase life at MIT “as seen through the eyes of a boy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  't have to consider any blockers in the way. At the start of our program ... . For instance, at the last depth of a search the engine can find a move ... a lot of extra work, but in reality the amount of time to search at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... “The Poetics of Place” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a last ... like the way I’ve turned out at MIT, but you always wonder). The

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... of Godel Escher Bach in my bookcase at home, right next to Marvin ... at 5am, this was another “no brainer’ to me. Of course I would go to

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of ... Bad Ideas Weekend at the end of January. Or go to my event. It involves ... . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  arts at MIT, though, this post will just serve as a log of art ... ="aligncenter" width="550"] interior of the MIT shuttle at night[/caption] [caption id ... outlines of strangers at Peet’s, or crack open an old notebook and see marker

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  thing, than okay at 10. Of course, it's even cooler to be really good at ... really good at physics. (And cheerleading.) That digression aside, of ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  the curriculum of the university: worked on syllabus design, reading ... Xerox (India).  Sara Hernandez Class of 2015 MIT-India Program ... take some classes at MIT at the econ and anthropology departments. It has

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno.'" Now the Bruno, like ... . It is currently New England Cable News' "video of the day." The Tech

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  . Sam offered to dispose of him for me. Hmm, urinal or toilet ... as MIT Student Juggling Origamit, "Paperfolding at MIT" LBGT ... depressing. DormCon sponsored an area at which you threw something into

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  felt like it or not, I was a sophomore. But of course, with the speed at ... . And yet, I think it's the most honest sentiment I can offer at this time ... we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023