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• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... are generally at the top of my priority list. And also, I figured that ... 'm going for. So now, in numerical order: 6.002 - Circuits and Electronics

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  solution to lowering carbon dioxide emissions and reducing fuel costs at MIT ... tool, since MIT students will be responsible for implementing the plan ... operations, and I feel the level of support for this project from the students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such ... 18th and 19th century topics, and may be repeated for credit with ... ’s “New Faces of 1996” and has since garnered a PEN/Malamud Award for short

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP). Her thesis advisor is Dr ... has several important real-world applications. For example ... infeasible for Intel to scrap all of their existing machinery, which is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  cruise ship companies have expressed interest in the project, and for good ... .S. in about 18 hours. During the flight, passengers would peer at ... -management system will serve the same purpose as trim on an airplane, allowing for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... rolls for breakfast. As I'm sure you know, these go very well with milk ... was going to start going hungry pretty soon). At the store I picked up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... , so it's Wednesday, I just printed out my 9.15 paper, and I'm done for ... department, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the Picower

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... common data set, over 60% of the classes at MIT have 19 people or fewer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  blogger. I've been following Matt's blog for several months now, and if you ... Matt through mutual friends and frequently drop into his office for ... (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute ... assessments for entering M.I.T. freshmen. He fears that the new 25-minute SAT essay test that started in March - and will be given for the second time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  bated breath. Where have I been? Well, for the past ten minutes, I was ... morning we had our weekly staff meeting, a good chance for all admissions ... might be helpful for you in the future). Quick news update: I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 ... egalitarian in that way. We really want to do our best for the students and parents who attend these meetings, to really make them worthwile. For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  Boston. The closest one is in a town called Dedham, MA. My craving for ... another opportunity like this for the rest of the year where Mariia would ... within two minute walking distance of each other for no apparent reason

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most ... are many other ambitions - for instance, to be the best possible ... be god, formless light fed through wire? All I pray for in the next

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... these ways, MIT isn't hard because I chose for it to be hard, it just is ... ’s definitely bad for you but you love it anyway. —Adira B. ’21 This is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... transparent plastic top, this nautical party ship cost all of $10.99 at the ... I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  internship during the daytime hours. I was writing embedded code for hardware ... of staring at Jira, VS Code, C++ docs, and the free snack selection in ... life. I found myself staring at these houses each day as I passed

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  paraphrase now: At this point in the journey, the nymph feels dissatisfied with ... notion of a ‘lukewarm life’ jumped out at me. As a freshman, I found that ... . Everything was a learning experience; the world had just opened up for me in a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  circle 😊. You can learn more about the team at https ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... , our 550-Volt custom battery, controls algorithms for torque vectoring

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  was not a comfortable sleep. Luckily for me, my Amazon bed got delivered ... year. i added the numbers for primary and secondary 14 majors, so the ... unicorn[/annotation] at MIT. These classes are all somewhere in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020