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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  interested in energy research or energy education, be sure to check out their website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in ... projected to be available this coming semester in Fall 2009. With all that in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I sometimes don't ever get past the recall part, so I decided to outsource that ... of notes to self. And with that, I will try to get those 7 hours of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school ... wrote How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs, it'd get an entry for the pun pagtanda "to get older" and pagtanda "remembrance". 11

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me ... mouthpiece stuck in it perpetually, it doesn't fit in its case. So I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and ... in which to evaluate Amount of Work Input vs. Grade Output. There ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  just can't seem to take it all in, you feel like you Have Truly Found ... School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the ... and their effect in the English language would have you believe, I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... -192. Alan: So we moved in the opposite direction, to a large, nondescript ... to go down in a horror movie. Clean white walls, no natural light, a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  because I relish the time I get to spend spacing out and basking in the ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... walk back across the Harvard Bridge to get to my apartment. According to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... , who wanted to bring back the grand old hacks of the past. In honor of ... GAMIT 2004] Bruno - A unit of volume equal to the size of the dent in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in ... currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to ... to apply with the research abstract? Is there a competitive edge in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  will take. In addition, I want to get a concentration in Music." I ... When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  From the website: 2.009, Product Design Processes, is intended to provide ... watching Animo, below, in person with my jaw dropping to the floor. https ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  learning about safety in the lab, since you're going to be working with glass ... long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... !). You put air in one end of the pipe to blow a bubble in the glass on the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a ... problem and having to work together to solve it in the most creative way

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  to say, i was in survival mode every single day until i finished my ... 't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really ... 're due, long lapses in my responses to friends, having to miss events i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... , video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the ... properties either those inherent to the cell or those in the local environment

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  in order of importance if you don't have time to answer them all. It ... UROP in the Plasma and Fusion Center writing scripts to decipher NASA ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some ... Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017