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• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of ... to. Keep in mind, there are about 50 people in my section of the class, so some of the processes have been streamlined for time efficiency

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative ... blogged earlier, is also sponsored by the French department, part of MIT ... of higher learning in France, the Cambridge students are using Internet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from ... Cognitive Sciences; specifically, he was interested in the neural basis of ... interviewed Brandon about his experience on King of the Nerds. How did you get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having ... thoroughly random conversation. One of the largest and highest-traffic talk lists is ec-discuss, the talk list of East Campus, which consists of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... —to document the trip. Along with the camera, I carried roughly fifty rolls of ... rolls of color negative (C41) and slide (E6). As soon as I returned to the

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... , and more. One of the dinner tables at ZBT; in this picture, you can ... appropriately called "8 Bit": A door mural of Link with a Triforce from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the imagination, but for those of you interested, here's my take on the lay of the ... like seeing that I expected to be studying a lot of the time. Would we

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... list of all of the events. Tomorrow (Saturday) Bay Area, California. Meeting location: the beautiful home of an MIT alum. Tuesday Miami. With

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If ... have also come across several of the professors that White mentioned ... known for being the breeding ground of the next big idea in science and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  pronto) and I found a video of me at the beginning of last year that I ... challenge? Here are the rules: 1) You have one hour to drink a gallon of milk ... a great look into the types of conversations that happen here and the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  , nanotechnology and more. Part of both the Schwarzman College of Computing and the School of Engineering, MIT EECS consistently is at the top of U.S. News and ... Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). The nature of interdisciplinary and
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show ... student has to take. The strongest examples of problem set classes are the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We ... an old entry of Ben's, or as the guy voted Most Likely to Cure Cancer ... believe this means I should be taking ninja classes or something of the sort

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  in the heart of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, the icon of ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... note="such as the Theater Arts tech closet, which has a ton of obsolete

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood. Once you've found them, you've unlocked the essence of storytelling. So, I thought I'd share some of the stories that I love. That resonate

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  puddles and the piss of Zeus himself with only the fire of their props to ... worked at this point, we might as well try. I don’t know where the lair of the weather wizard lies. He, the arch-nemesis of our fire dragons, is

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... candy is involved.The sidewalks were pure chaos — a blur of dinosaurs ... chaos. It was how familiar it felt.I saw so many of the same things I

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different ... to each pin to share information about the types of making that happen

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the MIT Interview keep b r e a t h i n g

  

  ). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  0 ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... :16 How much does the interview matter?? 4:16 What if I bomb the interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 6, 2017