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• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  (we just happen to be the biggest and nerdiest) (that’s just my opinion ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a ... is no longer the case) Gedion gets most of his parts from Mercato, the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  is to explore, educate, and engage the public by creating ... Can you believe we have a GAME LAB? The MIT Game Lab brings together scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real ... 's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I ... shelter for Wellesley friends scattered to the cold, Bostonian winds by the ... insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does MIT help student entrepreneurs?

  The MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS) supports innovation and entrepreneurial activity throughout the MIT community by matching both prospective ... the entrepreneur(s) in sessions that provide practical, day-to
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  where high school students can come to campus to take courses and live in the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on campus, but they're not run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Most
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  eagerness to get the hell out of the desert, I lost sight of the foundation ... , getting my favorite takeout food. Driving to the airport this morning (a ... travelling.] For months, I've been looking forward to the day I'd be leaving

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I ... ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things ... a laundry loop and get them back and continue the cycle.  So when I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the ... ...* My decision to pick MIT over Rice-Baylor was based largely on the fact ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  ? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral ... opportunities. The goal of the event was to help survey the kind of work done at ... excited (maybe a bit too excited) to talk about the Institute's considerable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets ... get it down from the third floor because it was too big to fit anywhere ... and down dorm row away from getting to the dorm. We began. We got

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to every stop on the T without leaving. The T is central to the college experience I’ve had and want to have. I transferred to the Orange Line to eat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  -world datasets, provided by the partner, to implement their own interactive web ... taught by THE Lupe Fiasco. When is the next time I'm going to be able to ... . Cons: I have to apply and get into the class in order to take it. It's at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’t started the assignment by 10pm and had to cancel my quick nap when he ... I, I was drawn to the class by the lab component (three hours on ... Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I ... circumstances. She planned to buy the breakfast from the awesome nearby cafe Flour. Proving their awesomeness, Flour decided to just donate the breakfast, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  where the list isn't really going to get any more comprehensive because ... victory by waiting until the last moment to turn him in. and because olivia ... front. there are plans in place to advance the game: but i can't get too

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  .... I wish I could be the perfect [beaver] But I come back to the ... ] Every [deadline] I make, [Mass Ave] leads back To the place I know, where ... , it was all engulfed by the infamous Boston fog. Thanks for always being

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better ... .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the interview. First, it is your responsibility to arrange the interview. You

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005