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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of the first-year experience, I stumbled across the following graf quoting ... Education Survey (aka the Lewis Report), which, as you can read on our history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to write about in one paragraph, so check out their site and explore what our
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then ... go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite ... was majoring in something, and I was like, "woah woah woah, don't you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  Massachusetts. I’m really interested in [annotation note="6: Computer Science"]course 6[/annotation] and am thinking I will probably major in either ... with the MIT Outing Club! In my free time I like to play lots of board

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... him leaving Roanoke in the fall. "I'm very very proud but very sad that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Jaywalk Mass Ave. I'm kidding; ;)don't;) ;)break;) the ;)law.;) Fall in ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I ... participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in ... Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  certain point I can't stand to sit at my desk chair in my dorm anymore, so I ... haven't really locked in with the full PNR mindset. I did every pset for ... grades in classes and decide what I would need to NR a class. The

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the ... miscellaneous assignments due. I put in solid training practices at the rink

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  , and I am disappointed in my time management 😅😭 ... magical experiences I’ve had in nature–all these enormous petals gazing up ... things blooming on campus in April and May. I guess spring really does live

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  , not really, I was just kidding." "No, seriously, you can bounce, get in ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... , and on Saturday evening I went out with James '11 and Sara '12 to buy

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  can also keep in mind that I will be repaying tuition loans for the next ... Coulomb's Law. Did you know that I'm probably one of the few people in human ... minutes. Lance Armstrong, that is. (Just kidding. I can assure you that we

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  hall. Lecture halls in that format aren't common at MIT (i.e. long table ... MIT alums in the movie: Colin Angle (iRobot co-founder), as Professor ... .007 competition at MIT. But I can be wrong, since I'm not that mech-E or EECS

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  photo of my food. 8:55 AM - Arrive in lab, unload my stuff at desk. I ... modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10 ... to Shaw's to buy sorbet On a side note, I am very excited to add this

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with ... th street) to the eyeglass store where I wanted to buy some new frames ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... Technology in 1990, Greiner founded iRobot with a classmate, Colin Angle, and ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... . And because I like biology, but don't necessarily want to work in a ... year I was majoring in Course 20, but recently switched to CMS as my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  posts in one month and ten days. I noticed that I had put almost all of ... equipment. I guess they did, though, since the lady in charge looked horrified ... , in a language more alien than the Tibetan I heard from the Dalai Lama

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012