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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes ... detector.) The composite sheet is then patterned with an array of 600

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband ... reunion with many of the '05s from my floor. Okay, enough with the romance ... Pot, on Pier 57. The cool half of the group got a meal that requires the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For ... discussing it with the rest of our house, I ended up drafting what the sign would look like using some pictures of the wall and created different 3D

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not ... all of the food through multiple shopping trips. We ended up with 3

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices ... The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit ... negative impact on your chances of admission.
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  letter. That moment, you will split into two versions of yourself: the you ... facets of who you are. Neither can the words "accepted" and "rejected ... . It's impossible to tell, from the outside, which of these factors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... replica of Mousetrap the board game. Rather than have me add 25 hyperlinks ... be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  (students, faculty and staff) are back into the rhythm of the academic season ... innovations. Some of the most successful examples are outside of the classroom ... -Perez) and I engaged in an online experiment: we took all of the lectures for 6

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... front of the student center steps. Over 80,000 people have died and more ... homes and families, but also for the future rehabilitation of earthquake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  the lives of MIT freshmen? I think people are very curious about what it ... applications and the busy schedules of the five students. Following the ... , and Waciuma at the foundry. David from AMPS produced this episode of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... got to play the role of Miley Cyrus this weekend, on a wrecking ball ... that, they built a giant box fort from the ruins of the stock market

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  The month of August was pretty busy for me - a combination of work ... lot out of the experience. It's kind of nice to settle down to classes ... -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... and who works in/around the field of interactive fiction. I think it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and ... scheduled entry.... One of the things I like about being home is getting to catch up on current events through the vast library of Newsweek, Time, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... learn and practice some or all of the following: lightweight composite
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  by the Book, which can be found on the second floor of Hayden library ... While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post from the MIT Alumni Association's page that caught my eye... The Great

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation note="director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one ... still allowed to use the -blr suffix?"]studyblr[/annotation] levels of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to arrive. Hundreds of families checked in during the first several hours of ... MIT Origami Club taught students the art of paper folding; those present

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement ... it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024