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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say ... time of my life in college (at a school that was ranked -YIKES- only #20 ... Name: Ben Jones Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  at MIT, but I definitely do a lot of failing. Perhaps the real problem ... studying at one of the most intense engineering institutions in literally the ... things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven ... , from Harry Potter. Flattered, I tried to imagine that it was because of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  many people are sick, but I definitely had some type of illness that made ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... rest of the semester. It was tough: missing out on presenting tonight ... presentation slides. I’m so proud of my teammates and grateful for their kindness

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  you inspired for a spoOOoky time at MIT! #1 – Pretend you go to a different tech school Tired of spelling "Massachusetts"? This is just the ... 't Massachusetts. #2 – Alchemist Show some love for one of the most notable

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24 ... . Over the course of 12 short weeks, we're expected to build a product that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn ... us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went ... blue mask. As of today, ~4 people living within 50 feet of me had some

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... my summer PDT at Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX. Dyess is home to the 7th Bomb Wing with a fleet of B-1B bombers as well as the 317th Airlift group

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  have been destroyed. From myself and all of my colleagues in Admissions ... and prayers are with you. We know that for some of you, it may be weeks ... helicopters carry their relatively miniscule payloads of water (relative to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... (EST). Start thinking of questions you might have for actual MIT students ... student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. (We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer) interning at the headquarters of North America's second-largest railroad, BNSF ... the home of my boss-to-be while he and his family are vacationing. I had

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a senior, so she doesn't have finals. Today, Mitra awoke me with a knock at ... posters from the walls of my rooms, so I e-mailed the '07 with a description

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  !). At the end of a recent class, she took us on a tour of the Language Lab ... :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019 ... of MIT's Teaching & Learning Lab and Bernd is the associate

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  of the TATS CRU will be at MIT throughout the week, giving guest ... than 40 years. Some of the previous Artists in Residence have included ... Toni Morrison, Author Gregory Hines, Dancer Several of my friends had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  would have said at the end of last semester. I still like the time ... at learning from books -- and I'm very jealous of them! 3. Katie '10 ... Last time, Jon asked, What kind of high school student were you? Did

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... if we add more vectors?) Let’s look at the tiles. Each of the tiles is ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  have had to learn anyway, at some point along the way: so many of us are ... , to feel several different kinds of grief all at once, to pay even 10 ... One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  at a distance. Here’s a short (and apologetically low quality) video of ... is at a final presentation and tech fair type of event:   But ... I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016