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• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  of physics (sort of... actually not really anymore), I can't restrain ... Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  I've never been one for actually truly believing in karma (what goes ... many people are sick, but I definitely had some type of illness that made ... say that I was not in a pleasant mood after reading it. I'll accept that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  rest of your application is strong. I am taking my second time of SATs in ... coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  receive 1/2 off of all meals in the house dining halls. You can read more of ... , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier '08 and I decided to literally run circles around the dorm. The title of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  , even though I was sitting in front of a chicken sandwich and a pile of ... 's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door ... community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit ... get the shot because I’ve had really bad experiences with injections in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  Promenade, or even in the elevator of my parents' condominium. Networking ... . In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar ... was away for much of my internship, I was handed a large deal of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur   Every time I go to one of these events, I ... , I went through the full list of 700+ startups that have ever presented

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  hundreds of projections shaped like spatulas. Each of these tips can attach ... and in the peritoneal cavity of live rats. Lo and behold, it worked ... require repeated re-alignment of the tissue being patched together, it can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  ..), but I haven't posted at all in March, and if I stopped posted entirely ... until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... entry, might I add, of like eight billion. Snively is totally making me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go!   A bit of background information before we dive in ... based on the availability of alumni in your region of the world.  It is

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  statement of this blogpost. I claim we should not give up quite so easily. In ... portion of it can account for our intuitions in the train and scarce ... version of a powerpoint literary presentation I gave at Alpha Delta Phi a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  about somewhere. I think in numbers. The other day, I called one of my ... These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... events have happened in my life. I experienced the best FPOP ever aka DPD

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... can get from Texas?) Their first posts will be coming soon, and I promise, you should be very excited! And of course, I want to thank

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a ... that are of the same scene but from different angles, can you stitch them ... .  Given an image of a place, can you sort it into a particular scene

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... can illuminate and demystify the most mysterious and frightening of ... Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus ... ! See if you can find them in the archives!) Mikey, as you can see from ... office, and whether or not it's Friday (any kind of Friday), you can always

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  committee strives to design a ring that we, as students, can take pride in ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -- Serving on the 2017 Ring Committee, I ... ", published in 2006. After a quick history of the Brass Rat, Matt catalogs all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the Ivy ... of sustainable finances in the ongoing recession. As many of you know ... President of Yale and an influential economist. While I don't have time to go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011