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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  is a great time to get to know you housemates, whether they just moved ... from having the kitchen stocked by a student elected to buy groceries to ... when you graduate and get a place of your own, it becomes difficult to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  getting a tour of the NYPD Cyberintelligence Unit organized by MIT's career ... November, and I didn't get a chance to check out their office when I was ... 't get a chance to watch the rest of the competition. Luckily, though, the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the ... have been written before by bloggers of yore, and I encourage you to read

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  taking us around the machine shop and giving a boring explanation on how to use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine ... In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  some students abused his time by never actually submitting the letters to ... letters written by other teachers. To deter this, he now charges $20 per ... these students' names on a website. This is not ethical (also, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  took my life day by day, moment by moment. 2018 was a year of many ... after 7pm Got stuck in Stuttgart returning back to Zürich because of a ... Learned to cook a traditional Czech meal in Prague Went to my first wine

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  say all you're going to get are tips on how to eat like a West African ... 'm probably going to hurt myself if I continue getting carried away with these ... the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  signed off by the registrar and then finally get a long awaited ... registration office (and get greeted “Oh hello again.”) to turn in a copy of your ... . But actually, to our surprise, having a “plan” and a “major” and a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  to is a composition of numbers. In general, when we need to get in ... different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2 ... data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... 't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  the class are required to create a website about it- you can check out ... In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  attachment. It's easy (especially to do a UROP summary), fun, and you get to ... Therapy? A Cardiac Risk Assessment of Hormone as Medication (by Dejah ... ) *Application of the Suspended Microchannel Resonator as a Biosensing Device to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn ... everything you write and syncs it to your computer to be used later in a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  introduced me to, and which I think about a lot MIT websites (5) "Emerson ... investment allows me to "share the risk of living a long life" by playing "a ... a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated ... has a student holiday on Monday that the professors always seem to ... test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  --just logged onto his computer, went to a handy-dandy website, ordered, paid ... interesting in the schedule book, try to find it, and get distracted by ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... to MIT and felt a quick jolt of sadness from leaving home after the ... least one language and to get some good projects under my belt. Here are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  to still set up a meeting, perhaps by each agreeing to drive a distance ... frustrating. When you contact your EC give them a little time to get back to ... still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008