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• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  and give up on Course 18), and my feelings for MIT in general were at an ... , if not the most popular major at MIT. According to the Registrar, there were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may hear around campus here at CPW! contents: glossary: a random ... away, typically lab equipment and electronics found on reuse or at Stata

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between ... : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... central park in the middle of the city. We talk. He just came from debate at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue ... their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping ... called poly(glycerol-co-sebacate acrylate), created a mold for the polymer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  forget what) that got us both called to the front for "punishment" at the ... remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... trouble thinking of anything. We were at a Conclave (sectional meeting) at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  Meh. My last, like, three or four ideas for entries have not quite ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... , but in the end decided to stay at EC. Then came hall rush. We had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student ... consumed so much American media that I felt more than ready for this transition. However, nothing could have truly prepared me for the absolute

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic ... extremely inbred. Awww. His name is derived from the Japanese sound for jelly ... rolled around for a bit and Orion retreated into the kitchen and hid under

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... here? I know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't ... waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. Who do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... is a breeding ground for weirdly poignant relationships with food. A friend of mine ate nothing but bread and cereal for a week. I once ate

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  : Mechanical Raymond took 15.S20 Design for 3D Printing as his first foray into ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn ... 's bad, if i don't program something for a while then that's bad. five ... it at the time, but what i wanted to say was probably something like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not ... [annotation note='future readers, the deadline for mit rd apps was tomorrow when ... wrote a tiny bit of advice and compiled a lot of advice at the bottom of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read. I read guidebooks for each stage of development the stage before I ... 't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens before I reached twelve, and Elaine St ... disdain for books that seemed--like diet pills or clickbait listicles--to be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  electricity at home, and as such can only use it for a limited time after school ... at the Technique Club Garage, about half an hour away from our hotel ... battery at bodegas or local shops, so they'd planned to visit a Haitian

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  still learned a lot. Every crew is responsible for doing a checklist and ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a ... ) bunk room for about 5 hours. I got a lot of HASS reading done. =) Then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  at the same time, avoiding injury. I have deep scars on both knees ... 't remember what it felt like anymore, just that I felt a bit of real fear at ... , comes from repetitive motion (like typing). For me it shows up as pain in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  that the freedoms and privileges that I enjoy today were fought for and ... black female. Even at home, I’ve been in resorts where my own fellow ... and cloaked bigotry at every turn, and waking up every morning to hear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of this semester, I set some goals/rules/guidelines for myself. I didn't stick to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our ... together and then sleep at last. After a walk past the rosy river that lasted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014