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• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  On to the questions... Arvind wrote, "'One more favour please', can I ... very interesting.(I have a super slow net connection to download or hear an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  Hi everybody! I was busy this [annotation note="IAP, for y ... between classes, people, and personal projects. I was somewhat exhausted by the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... gleamed with newness and strangeness and since I was convinced that MIT was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... 's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this summer” post. I’m working at Microsoft! Ok, post over, back to work/weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior year, I dove into an endless whirlwind of crafting, learning crochet and ... time to rank my choices for first-year advising, I kept hesitating. What

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take ... , with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic tools and ... Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  i. i watched the anime attack on titan last year and liked it a lot. there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... antagonists, they have already arrived   ii. this reminds me of a game i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to the kitchen to reheat it. i see some friends from hall. "good morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  mismatch from what you remember. Every time I've come back to my hometown I ... look. The street I walked with my friends to get home every day after ... head. I don't want to know what it looks like now. Two. Two nights ago I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I ... worked pretty well, but I had two big issues: No sorting or filtering ... manually. I imagine some amount of sorting could be accomplished with a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  study/work abroad programs are definitively cancelled. I want to preface this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  It's the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I ... . Around this time last year, I went to MIT Medical with some kind of GI ... have any kind of meaningful reflections about it. I spent most of it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me ... . unfortunately, i don't have my own car here, but also want to see places around the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a learning curve. By learning curve I don't mean "oh snap it is going to take ... disclaimer, I am still a freshman and I am not claiming to know everything

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  him fervently. "Ay, Luciana! Va bene! I'm getting up now..." Yawning ... last time?" "Mm? Oh wait, do I owe you another lasagna? But I don ... tap to the head. "No!! Dio mio, at this point, I don't know how many

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  Okay, I haven't blogged all week... the last week of term here is ... BSO. I had no idea that this included Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, both of which I've studied a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005