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• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should ... ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing ... life at MIT is a perspective only you can provide, so you should feel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  Hampshire with Joe and Joe's Dad. A picture is worth exactly one thousand ... treacherous stream in rustic fashion. This is the best picture, so it goes first. I assume this is where we were going... otherwise, why did I take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  Huawei P7. Huawei is a smartphone brand that sells widely in Africa and ... sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... braided my hair)    Gedion is pretty phenomenal. In many ways, he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  with the poems!  Alan: Just remember, in a neighboring room, someone is ... writing thesis.  Alan: Every Sunday, Fatima brings a poem which is invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather machine will kick in soon. Have any questions or concerns? Post them and I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  for many dorms was just put in last summer. There is a website with ... Questions 1. Sevi asked, here is a question for you about Mac ... , but some slarifications is needed. What is it in feet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  future. She also has a minor in French and is thinking about putting some ... ,000 tiny holes (about 70 um in diameter) using a chemical etching process The ... well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a

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

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Institute for Basic Research, which is run out of a PO Box in Florida. The new ... fun! Today in 10.37: Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design, we had a pop ... on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to campus in less than two minutes and once lived in Africa and is actually ... be Stephen Hawking in Random Hall, which is probably why he doesn't do

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... . What I mean is, if, hypothetically speaking, everyone in a class got an A ... an A is very hard in most classes. C people are not encouraged to drop

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be ... (Only in Texas can you legally drive 80mph on an Interstate highway!) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... professor is speaking a foreign language. This bipolarity often occurs within

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  didn't mean that I don't like it here! It's just that MIT is located in a ... second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in ... move in, and the way things could look a month or a year later. I was

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While ... a draw for me in the depth of intramural sports. I had been a varsity

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  is, in fact, eco-friendly and compact. Shyeah.']a steering wheel ... ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  door in building 66 in case it's miserable outside. - Living at EC is a ... is strange in a different way; living in EC, you get to see so many ... have comes in a large part because East Campus is not a Nice Place: we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is ... , plugged in values, and spat out an answer. But not you. With you, a 15-word ... manipulated and combined with another equation in such a way that the entire

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  With 33 varsity sports teams, MIT is the largest DIII athletics program in the nation. About one in four MIT students join a team during ... potential Olympic contender or if this is the first time you've ever thrown a
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are Psets?

  If you're interested in MIT, you have to learn a little bit about ... , the entire course is weighted towards exams so that psets are seen as a learning tool. In other courses, psets are a substantial portion of the final
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  short answer is: we’ve been doing a lot! So we asked Claire, one of our ... ’s been a big year. Check it out! STARS@MIT: A Year in ReviewWhen I was ... programming, here’s a year in review of what STARS Ambassadors at MIT have been

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025