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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  not do the same for its research? He saw it as an educational ... aspects of research, to show anyone with a knack for knowledge how ... high-profile work I had done for Amtrak. I am e-mailing you on the off

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  a painful metaphor for my life right now. (Sometimes, a leaf isn ... , leaf! Christiane asks: What's the age-limit for prospect students at MIT ... place in the Top 200 in Math/Chem olympiads in high school? Thanks for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work ... . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  Time for some more questions: MIT App Mom asked: "Maybe it's just me ... for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... this blog template for me, he named it "Life of a Tecker" after the first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was ... .25 + $.50 for Nick) Erica gives Simon $5.76 Nick gives Simon $5.18 That might ... too timid to ask the waiter for change. It's truly a beautiful disaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  arrangements for vegetarians??" mudfud again comes to my rescue: "There are ... can get quite a wide variety of vegetarian food (and nonveg for that ... Campus) have really nice kitchens, so you can cook for yourself as well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced ... changed every round. All I needed to do was report our team’s answers for

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much ... floating in a fluid (which is what we’ve been talking about for two weeks

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  burning sun will, some day, rise So what am I gonna be doin' for a while ... myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the ... for a little bit. Watch me eat my words in a few months time. I love

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... of course, more green living things than my heart could ever wish for ... rental and gas fees for undergrads :)"]group of people[/annotation] who

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  well for me—I like focusing on fewer things at any given time, and in ... at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... are funded. This funding pays for tuition, health insurance, and a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  make?” I was, for better or worse, all too familiar with this “ultra ... New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... vehicles for traversing Hyrule to full-on attack drones that mow down hordes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] Figure 1 – Mohs hardness scale for some common materials [2 ... ” opening in July) to measure their Vickers hardnesses. To correct for human error, I took three measurements for each sample using the indenter and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  glassblowing and psycholinguistics to creative computation. There are clubs for ... . Through the Council for the Arts at MIT, you can get free or discounted ... attendance to professional or academic conferences for undergraduate students

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ="not that there's anything wrong with that; i absolutely live for vincent ... City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was ... . I sat on the edge of my bed for a while, admiring the midday sunshine

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  destination isn't in downtown someplace, you'd probably have to walk for half an hour. I have a friend who's also living in Mountain View for the summer ... means that things are far from each other. For example, a friend was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  training. For this, you had to do different modules based on which track you chose to learn for the maker space. Just for reference, I was doing the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most ... . For my classes with synchronous lectures, I never missed a single one. I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  this strange semester. So, as I wait for the news, I thought this might ... stare at my phone for an hour to have a conversation with a friend. Beyond ... , make breakout rooms, and it becomes weird. As grateful as I am for the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020