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• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe, and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  good men & women of the United States Postal Service are even as I write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed all of the letters first class, and I hope nearly everyone will have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  Yesterday, I briefly deserted my physics and orgo psets and headed ... : the RA admits! I think I got to call and congratulate about fifteen or ... is AWESOME. Those of you whom I spoke with were funny, nice, and

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

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  Great meetings this week in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette ... meeting, and later across the Bay Bridge to Lafayette, for another meeting that had us grabbing for and setting up extra seats to accommodate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path ... between the intitial position of the object and its final position is called ... travelled and displacement are not always equivalent amounts. Sure, if you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of ... of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of ... running out of battery!), I prevailed against all odds and secured a photo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  in, from my lab-mates, from my friends...and so on. Maybe it's not as ... , it's convenient - and at MIT, everyone checks it. They don't call this the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships ... recognizing you for your accomplishments. Look for scholarships, and try hard ... points are Sallie Mae's College Answer and FastWeb. Unfortunately, many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  (which involves a personal statement, a plan for finishing your degree, and ... competitive high schools, ran the college-admissions rat race, and kept running ... enough to have good friends and a strong community to support me during

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  about MIT, life, the universe, and other super specific things, like grass allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way ... roped my friends Cathy '17 and Tara '17 into making a video for all you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  love University of Oregon Football, and I can cook pretty much anything ... responsibilities in the Admissions office and my assumption of said responsibilities ... 've been cataloging and evaluating these tactics and I've come to a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and useful, and I know Paul '12 and Hamsika '13 are excited for it. RA ... the news on the official and unofficial pages. Debate fans: The MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Break. Clearly, three days away from the Institvte is too much for me, and ... require frequent missions to deliver fuel, food, and spare parts. Two MIT ... mind is on the eighth dimension MIT Mathematics Professor David Vogan and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... My room's dark, it's late Monday night, and the January respite from ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... , sometimes Tufts or Boston University). Sometimes, these alums will band together to rent/buy a house as a group. And, as tradition goes, these nerd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... , and a few thousand more to watch, eat cookies, and clap a lot. I ... awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  . My mom looked at the caller ID and said, "Oh look it's an out of state ... , played in concert halls across the country, won state championships, and ... So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  tell you about today? ICE. And I don't mean solid water. From the subject listing and schedule: 10.490: Integrated Chemical Engineering Presents and ... synthesis, economic analysis, and process design. P. I. Barton, G. J. McRae, B

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their ... /astro is nuclear engineering and even they don't have jet engines. If you ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you

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

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It ... 450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007