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• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... any work, but then life happened and school exploded and my to-do list

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  on the head by a plum, as if it too were offering me some kind of ... me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high school E&M, which truly makes me appreciate my AP Physics teacher. 9

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  110%. Some day soon, many of us will have to offer our support to ... of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  classes begin next week. But over the last week, the Class of 2026 arrived on campus for their orientation, of which one major component is Residential Exploration, or REX for short, which is part of how housing is assigned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The ... everything college has to offer. They want to work hard, show their parents

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The ... place it on the dining table of the 132 suite at precisely 12:10 AM on ... with your offering. The truth is, Baxter never really left you. Search

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  One of my sophomore advisees asked me about MIT summer opportunities ... the educational and life experiences of students through leadership and service opportunities" and offers IAP and summer fellowships a) Focus

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  excited about. There’s the Thursday 6.01 Design Lab 8 where hours of work ... two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... ’s, Oculus Rifts, laser cutters, 3D printers, bandsaws, plywood, 1000 yards of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  instead of a test so we're only counting three. Last day of school was on a ... Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very, very, very long ... finish off the year by giving you all a full run down of everything that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  engineering is highly sought after in all sorts of industries, from chip design ... of 6.2050 was ultimately to implement these designs as hardware. Back ... sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  compliments she had to offer, despite the overall morbidity of the characters ... olympiad problems. I taught at my high school and transferred the contents of ... particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly ... 's wonderful, right?) "That sounds wonderful to me!" As a result of that e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... other thing.” Of course, this was not a real conversation with a person at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  out of this towards the end of elementary school, but still kind of ... means making sure that we’re not both wearing the same article of school ... This past semester has been different than any of our other semesters

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  engineering, and we also had them design a system of making the program itself ... of time speeding hazily by. I've been...  Trying to cook food more without setting off any alarms (a sure sign of sophomore-ish maturity, or so

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the ... many of you will do a fair amount of reading as well. Before I go too

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012