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• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  . I get to aim at one simple thing, the bulls-eye, and get to ignore ... Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... 't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at ... . He had to leave in a hurry, but he gave me one to try out - Horace the pig ... , Horace.   Thank you to everyone at AR in Action conference and to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  meditative to get the soil in your hands and I like that a lot,” Peter said ... : Peter Dourmashkin is a senior Lecturer who came to MIT in 1972. After ... Integrated studies program to Project Interphase and teaching in the Physics

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first ... . The primary time to have fun during the year lies in breaks. Whether ... forward to another great one. Tune in next time for a post about IAP, all of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  conversation in Bangla. I’ll never get to know him. I periodically deeply regret ... three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up ... pathologically prone to seeing too much good in people. I’ve been burned many times

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Physics Students) in your major are a fantastic way of getting to know ... sentence is to be interpreted literally in the context of “there's so many ... post in one blog!**** ****Experiment truncated in order to minimize the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  will undertake independent research projects in economics. will have to ... to engage in self-sabotage. i now live in a super quiet place (relative to anywhere i lived in EC, at least), and my walls are white. in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand ... absolutely no sense to you. Perhaps he's speaking in another language ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  every kid around the world,”  said Binzel, according to an article in CBS ... in the late 1980s. Worked with Professor Jim Elliot and Ted Dunham to ... Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first few steps along the way," said Mr. Sahin, who plans to major in ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  I’m going to get. Wouldn’t it be nice, living in Boston, visiting MIT ... spend another year or two in MIT and get another degree, or should I leave ... 'll work in; this decision alone was already plenty difficult. To theory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... : blogging for MIT admissions!) Even though I didn’t get, or even attempt to ... gone to MIT and gotten a job at the career fair! Also in attendance on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... .01 (economics) pset. (ever want to know what a study room looks like at four in ... . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  ! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your ... it is you need a shoe horn to get their heads through the door) This ... mumbling to his 13 grandkids, "Youth is wasted on the young." In this post I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  the official site launch in early september! (Special thanks to Mollie ... new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  essence, what we’d like to understand the chains of cause-and-effect in the ... not enough space to go into them here']give them your intervention (in ... ’t expect there to be much of a difference in the characteristics between the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... in paint, approximately how i cut the π[/caption] I had to cut it in ... out I don’t have to be perfect in order to be happy with what I do. How

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the ... F/A-18s overhead to the percussive expression of a man in a pug mask ... of a gasification plant, and someone is getting married. And in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014