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• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How ... students to take many of their upper level courses at a local community ... , where I had a Central Meeting at the Qualcomm corporate offices in one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm, with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying ... is contributing towards the making of global citizens. 'Global

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal ... . (Yes, all of them. I tried.) Slush blooms like grey wildflowers on ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago, I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed ... second face. Look at each of those faces from above and below, and you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  the full-size version. I’ve been looking at how changing the title of a ... a lot of research at the intersection of computer vision and ... For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  lengths about the strength of our economics department. Back to CPW… at the ... your American Cancer Society. During the event, teams of people gather at ... catch up. First off, our hearts go out to everyone at Virginia Tech. While

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  : The constant value of k, no matter how it is composed at any given ... As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she ... -year-old will board a plane at San Angelo Regional Airport/Mathis Field

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  tea is pre-labeled with “99¢”, what type of person chooses to work at ... from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... behalf of the society. During these sessions we had discussions with ... demonstration of the Air Force Drill Team, Hooahh! The Air Force Association

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  manatees. (You have to kind of tilt your head at something like a 270 degree ... of Kyoto Station at sunset. With full bellies and seven years of good ... up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  later, someone took notice of Milk and stared at his expiration date ... and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their ... presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior ... I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  perform amazingly at the school of your choice. So I'll be lame and close ... heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli Keuhne (professional golfer who attended the University of Texas) Right

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of ... ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night. - When J. Robert

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  . It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  at the intersection and combination of EECS and BCS in Course 6-9. Two ... whatever classes they want, within the constraint of satisfying their degree ... this list, you can perhaps get a look at how pursuing one avenue of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020