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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  just "Make") is sort of legendary. Gershenfeld has taught the class every ... had to design the bricks ourselves and laser cut them out of cardboard ... the peaks of the edges have to be wider than the valleys, so that the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... monolayer of Au nuclei (styrofoam ball contraption, behold below) at the front of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India ... imagined, though it isn't large by the standards of national parks in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these ... , and[annotation note="Those of us in cold climates, anyway. The rest of ... some mixed-up combination of reactions to things that happened the day

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Of all the student groups I am involved with at MIT, the one that brings me the most happiness is Camp Kesem MIT. Those of you who have stuck ... and sophomore summers at MIT, and I’ve been a part of the coordinator

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  [annotation note="read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group chat yet."]Until very recently,[/annotation] I was the president of Next House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted to talk about some of the processes that went into making sure

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started in October 2016 through a partnership with the MIT - Italy program of Dr. Serenella ... of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  province being published in the local newspapers. There is no other way of ... interview-related questions. "One of the requirements of MIT is that I should ... about this. In terms of your self-reported coursework, put swahili in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not, sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the [annotation note="the six

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  city is so diverse and you can find almost any kind of food all over the place - fooood is gooood. And, of course, THE SOX.Favorite movies: The ... : The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... with). The three of us take turns running the meeting and share updates ... "]meal.[/annotation] The chances of me leaving this world because I choked on bread are

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out ... nice way to still connect with those close to me outside the world of ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... qualitative aspects of civil engineering, rather than the hands-on aspects (though power tools are lots of fun to play with). The material we are

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but ... . but i think in the last year, things have started to take a bit more of ... school could be, these were the types of things i could only dream of doing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  melts during the day except in the shadow of the house. I call my ... valleys. Mornings are foggy; nights are cold. On the 4th of July you can drive from town to town up and between the hills and see dozens of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... take off the waitlist. As of right now, it's too early to know anything ... . Regardless, if you are on the waitlist and hope to be taken off of the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  moderated by MIT Professor of Chemistry John Deutch. The talk is hosted by the ... . Deutch ran the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as Director of Central ... "Saudi Arabia and the Global Community" Thursday, February 16, 4pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of Edison, NJ, Jun Choi '94, was sworn ... most popular male name and the most popular female name of students ... Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of ... closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005