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  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th Commencement will be webcast starting at 8 AM ET, with color commentary by our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  subtle undercurrent of rampant paranoia. At some level, nearly everyone ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA ... It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  hold the answer. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... technology at a bar in Cambridge where a group of singles were "speed ... attraction at the end of the session. And, somewhat unbelievably, the Human

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  18, of Random Hall): "I'm working at Akamai, which is not all that ... House, formerly of Simmons): "Summer internship at NASA-Langley Research ... working at my local hospital and baking a lot of cookies this summer too

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  airport terminal). During one of those adventures, at a restaurant in Rome ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  depressing if you always think of it as the sun is setting. Last week was Week 5 of Michaelmas term at Cambridge. Week 5 at MIT means Fifth week ... , get about 8-9 hours of sleep every night, even at MIT. But you

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  . At the very end of his long effort measured by skyless space and time ... , that is the hour of consciousness. At each of those moments when he ... top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least ... of a success, but I gave it a shot. There have been tons of articles written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  front of an audience of 200 they shouldn't be looking at a black box on ... commonplace nor a prominent feature of most of the shows done at MIT). It's a ... ) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  , clubbing at some of Vegas' most fashionable nightspots, and just hanging out ... may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  chip away at that mountain of rotational motion problems. I even had to ... realized that I really had to lock in for 8.01.  At the end of the class ... Every Thursday at 6:45pm for about two months, I trudged fifteen

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at ... mechanical and ocean engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  had been awhile since we had all (or at least most of us) hung out ... even sometimes sad being on the other side of CPW. I knew that it would ... me miss my own CPW so much, but so grateful of the opportunities and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  there’s a ton of colorful rectangles demanding I be at this place, at this ... of 11:59 so I stress out at 10:59 instead and can spend the next hour ... obnoxious. If I wake up, it’s not because of a clock, but instead purely

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Don't Stop Believing, the last song played at every EC party. Many of my ... some equipment finagling, they gave in. And someone at the front of the ... of my friends, all of whom I met (among other places) at EC. Hopefully

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... evaluation of every class she taught at MIT. She deserved a tribute video. And ... Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  helped guide them in every aspect of life. Being a stay-at-home mom is an ... time off of work to spend more time at home? Who has influenced your ... through the NY Times, which MIT generously provides at no cost, I came

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made ... chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer ... inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions ... tell by looking at a toad how far he will jump; second, the process of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the implementation of this order is still under review, its prospect has caused a lot of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017