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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  ensure a steady supply of the oil on which we are so reliant, even as we ... -- exploitation of this finite resource is dirtying our planet. I'm about to ... Petroleum Institute, a majority of US voters would prefer to rely on oil

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  interest in astrophysics, which is probably a large part of the reason I was ... , with me, the question of whether it is in principle possible to major in ... I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  . That sense of resignation—not even attempting to cross the abyss—Rooney is ... poem, when it works, is an action of the mind captured on a page, and the ...  Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action, 33,240 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2025. This is an unprecedented increase of 66% over last year, when we received 20 ... needed to get the job done right.   It was an incredible amount of work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  on the leading edge of a growing fashion trend. More and more ... using math and biology to produce the designs of their earrings, bracelets ... program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... station the for Course 10B, which is chemical and biological engineering TOGETHER, which is basically just chemical engineering but you take out all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  how to swim, just not with any style or grace. So I showed up on the first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes ... , sidestroke, and more. The class is tiny; one teacher to about two or three

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

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is ... lives halfway across the country. Every moment we get to talk is a treat. I can talk to her on my way to the coffee shop without losing work

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  Director of Data at Second Spectrum, which is used by almost all NBA ... On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of ... 's 7.9% acceptance rate! Speaking of MIT, how many MIT alums end up on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  common data set, over 60% of the classes at MIT have 19 people or fewer ... are.) Anyway, the point of all this is that I had a really good meeting ... about professors you're close to is that they make you call them by their

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  algorithm, which is a cool way of doing parameter estimation for complicated ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  of them on harmonica. We met at about 10:00pm to practice, which ended ... day', which since yesterday is declared to be celebrated every year in ... Linux on a potato. But last night in Next House, a very different kind of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  to put all of this into some sort of algorithm or formula to determine whether the job nets joy or sadness as a function of time. A few hours ... your plans to stay on the waitlist rather than return the postcard

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  just to keep my head above the water. 5.601 is more or less the same ... effort reflected in my exam grades. Which is fine! One round of bad ... legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... of crowding in campus housing, since freshmen are required to live on ... to know the majority of people at the school. Size is an implicit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  out which produce is closer to ripening. in one of the labs we built an ... good decision, as 6.2540 is now one of my three favorite technical ... the last month you work on a project where you fabricate something of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  to give you a sugered version of what MIT is like. This is real stuff ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the ... about where to spend the next four years of your life. But there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  't Know That I Don't Know. I'm looking to find a better understanding of ... footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  page and the font is some hideous shade of purple or something, don't be ... gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to ... lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to have your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  the archives of the merchant Francesco Datini, which date to 1335 ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013