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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  compared that to a marmoset and other animals on their own ipads ... how they worked and made a design for new “wings” to add to the robot ... our hero! He went on to do projects for a diving company after college

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  progresses, but I did want to take a quick break to at least give you all an ... 's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday ... Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  butt glued to a random chair on the first floor of Stata. But your mentor ... 36 minutes, so you might as well take a quick excursion to the polisci ... !!!” It’s kind of a walk from Stata to McCormick, but McCormick is on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  explosions. I was on call with Daniel one day to go over a [annotation note ... A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned ... every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless ... as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has ... is to summarize a student's qualifications within context. We also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  in reality. Sidequests: 5/10. To be fair, sidequesting on a brutal ... summers to catch up on the hobbies that I don't actually partake in at all ... permanently humongous backlog of video games that I barely manage to make a dent

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... this was hard. It felt like I had to shoot on faith. I took a deep ... me to forget about it. The shot groups on a target tell a story in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  2, conductor Yohei Sato took a quick break to let guest conductor ... , Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy, just to name a few. Last Thursday ... composers in order to arrange and perform these songs with a live orchestra

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  next to RLE's: This one's in Interstate. It's a font based on the road ... always has a spur on the lower-right. But the G in the label doesn't have a ... ="83921" /] Here's a sign for Swapfest. From April to October, hundreds of Swapfest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... is exactly what I'll have to do very soon. It'll be a huge comedown ... AM chem lab on time. Meanwhile, you don't have a definite housing plan

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch up on. I've been writing this entry for a while now and am less than ... that Will Smith turned down a scholarship to MIT to pursue his rap career

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  dorm on MIT’s campus that year was a steaming pile compared to all-new ... New House a couple of years ago due to an extensive renovation effort ... girlfriends), we had to pay New England Telephone Company to install a real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  school friend still working on writing a book? Did you hear about that new ... head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... stroll from a campus library back to my dorm—I will bump into at least

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  meet cool people through classes, who have pushed me to think in new ways. I know it's easier to talk about liking a class when it's over, but ... that you only really understand something if you can explain it to a five

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  live on a hill fairly close to Puget Sound, so on my daily runs I can ... , so I might be on to something?  HIGH SCHOOL I started running ... where to be on the court? How do you set up plays? Volleyball was better

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  on the Internet, but I need to have time to acquire a power adaptor for ... rampant. The clincher was when a friend sent me a link to a post about ... ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... to realize that I'm the furthest thing from a fighter... and I started ... shop. So actually, scrap the entire recipe. The key to a successful

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  behalf of all of us, here's a big public thanks to them.) So this is just a quick entry to let you all know that everyone's portlet has been ... Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  meeting. Which was about 2 hours of me rewinding the video to catch up on a ... struggling for a bit too long to make the base of my lamp, I gave up on it and ... to work on making a mesh, and this was where my prior mentioned

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  I liked to teach myself -- and I'd go to college on a scholarship ... , depending on traffic, to sit in the basement of a Sloan building. (Sloan is ... engineering, opened to new friendships, and opened to MIT. A picture's worth a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009