Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write about my experiences here as a guest author. First off, some perks of life

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  University of Toronto, he came to MIT as a postdoctoral researcher to work in ... Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... the MIT Class of 2027, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early admission to 685. Though they are all different in their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  production of Man of La Mancha and I got seated right behind the sound board ... mysteriously lit by the glow of the microphone rack who constantly shuffled their ... was actually a result of a few kids scrambling around behind the scenes

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... of my friends this surreal video about studying math because the experience of waiting and frustration and enlightenment is, thankfully

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... 's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More ... each of these classes by typing the subject number into the Course

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  !, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has an image for an answer ... at Diesel Cafe. Reading is kind of like studying: everyone needs to ... yesterday, because I had lost my trusty Swingline stapler, one of my crucial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  . Offer not valid to participants of this year's hunt. Hint: Signal ... blogging position for 1/38th of my life. Therefore, this post will be in 100 ... sentences without the crutches of LaTeX syntax and an average math density of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... , so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of ... addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom ... general idea of religion which was that of a universe ordered by a supreme ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in ... .e. none of this October business from last year!). I've spent a ton of time ... , I am reminded of both the breadth and the depth of MIT students and of

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters, before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole musical. expect a bad ending. hermes tells us this in one of the most upbeat

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... : humanitarian crisis, deeply divisive politics and high-profile incidents of terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ,312 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2023. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,410 students. The Class of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  CEO of University Beyond, helping brands find and manage campus brand ... , Vice President of Watson University, an incubator for student ... student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  deep of a topic. "Just write about your favorite shows and stuff, Mel," I keep telling myself. "How hard can it be?" But some part of myself still ... interests." The logical part of me knows that's probably the dumbest thing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  light is rotated a bit, but not the full 90 degrees required for all of it ... light the full 90 degrees.) G: 50% (all of the green subpixels are letting ... . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012