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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start ... . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... -taking because I tend to do one of two things. Either I obsessively write down

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  and meet.  Half of the week is devoted to the jamboree's theme: politics ... of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... beans and tomatillos in there. The reason this is all on my mind is

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  act was to place the flugelhorn on a stand that Matt lent me, which ... length, but a flugelhorn is fatter. It's like what would happen to a ... 'm aware), which is a little room equipped with a piano and music stands, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... . The most basic building element is a point-like particle, which has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on the ring ... . Why? Because it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why ... catalog the recent history of Brass Rat designs, focusing on the bezel, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  of my favorite place on earth, and there are so many things to find, see, and do! So, if you're coming to CPW this weekend, this is my ... of the things on the list above, or maybe the one with the most

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  for now, I’d like to share three pieces of advice. These three pieces of ... must have heard her whisper “the sky is the limit” in my ear thousands of ... “Study hard” or “Eat your broccoli.” As I prepared to leave home for MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... your college applications (or whatever else you choose to do) this year ... of you to apply to MIT. It’s an honor and a privilege for us to read

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  animals. We turned to [William Temple] Hornaday's book on the animals of ... background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today's entry to catalog the recent history of Brass Rat designs, focusing on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Assembly. All of which are time sinks, the first one measuring up to nearly ... drop classes or not is never a good idea, but I am happy to constantly be ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  A lot of our students select math as their field of interest when applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the best on the planet. Mathematics provides a language and tools for
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it began, how he spent his time here, and now what he is continuing to do ... company he cofounded with some MIT classmates, is set to become the most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  , though, is to retrieve the broomstick from the highest point on the map.  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... . But you HAVE to show up on time, or you forfeit the points. Guess what I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  not by much. I passed all four of my classes, which is a massive victory ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... barely scrape out a passing grade, which is now a P on my transcript! If I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  dreams and goals of what's going to happen 100 or 1000 steps from now. From graduate school to being a professor, or from medical school to being a doctor, or becoming any 1 of millions of things you could possible be. But

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  Place is an incredible show that captures the essence of what it means to ... of my ability to go, "Haha, yeah, I like that show," and move on. Being ... -changing. I'd initially read the English translation of MDZS, but I moved on to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  , is to take a picture of my keys when I move out. Or at least, when I ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... a lot of math, or pure math, I guess. I took 18.701 and 18.702, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... chose to hang my hat on MTG. Was it scary to audition as a freshman? Of ... ’s bed (not my own often enough. I need to be better about going to bed on

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  possible image of his or her research group be projected to the outside world ... /review session on all of undergraduate math, topics from calculus to analysis to ... who everyone really is— and of trying to show everyone who you are. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  .e. =), or reset (could be C or AC on iPhone. One of them is clear which is ... robot does not know using Markov Random Process (which is also a subset of ... result on S as well. This is because we’re doing a simple + or - operation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018