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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... its name is Grease Lightning. Its empty mass is 0.1kg and coefficient of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  -- oftentimes there aren't so many degrees of separation between people. ... Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  Softtek   Graciás a la University of Monterrey for hosting us on your ... While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  then, but I can't take advantage of any of their offers now because they ... a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  have had good reasons! As some of you may know, I've been studying abroad at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 months. Here at Cambridge, instead of having finals at the end of each

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  attended high schools that offered dozens of these courses, and, yes, some of ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  of voters that exist here, with more than 50 colleges and universities ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  Reserve UniversityFranklin W. Olin College of EngineeringOhio University And ... while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the ... by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  (adcoms from colleges and universities, GC's from high schools, independent ... for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up ... Hrabowski's incredible speech, after which Marilee and I went in search of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  minutes later, my friend Holly responded and said that, duh, of course she ... Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print ... listen to it whenever and however you like. I listen to a lot of podcasts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. John Hopkins University Press, 1995. A 1907 ... sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  provide some snapshots of MIT: 3/26/07: MIT models interdisciplinary supply chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... an international team have mapped “one of the largest and most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... school year of studying. Luckily, MIT understands that its students ... in 34-401 (A room at MIT where a lot of EECS events take place) talking

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine ... . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  just the tip of the iceberg of what MIT has to offer for international ... occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  ... Once you were here, MIT offered a fine range of Courses (our numbered way ... backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... -question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006