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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  allows me to do just that - I get to create organisms with fun properties ... 's a great synthesis of the overall strategy of learning-by-doing with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  my list of 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate!   It’s always ... .   But before I left, there was one thing I absolutely had to do

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... one of the best places to do it. I think you can see this theme in many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  They say that the best way to get something important done is to do it while procrastinating on something far more important. I clean my ... should do this more often. On Tuesday I had another midterm project

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  can do, for how we as people live in the world. Course 11 is the perfect place to do this. The planning department offers a wide array of material

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  in the picture? Yes. Your eyes do not deceive you. Those are 3-story ... of living in an uncertain world." How do you make systems that are so

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an admissions officer. If they ask me what an admissions officer actually does ... . This is why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  extremely difficult to do both. I chose theatre. But then the summer after ... , psets, long to-do lists. I've realized - better late than never - how

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  we stopped for a proper break. I had to do that a couple more times ... first proper rodeo experience. I've also been able to do some good old

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  : Where do you live? Me [thinking: don't you have my address right there in ... answering questions about what I do in my free time and why I wanted to go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  with in Simmons) and Maria. Not only do I have a cameo in this one with a ... much. I do get my own laundry machine, though. Oh! And if you're reading

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  about how engineers, not physicists, do things like carry around tools ... much faster reaction time than I do, since in the seconds it took for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  't mean quite the same things to us as they do to our friends. And here we ... 's whiteboard And we do it damn well, too. Turns out when you put a lot of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  didn't allow us to fly our third mission, so we'll be doing that tomorrow ... to fly yet). Since Corn Dog is so fast, we're anticipating doing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Boston. Classic.           2. Do things you think you can't. When I ... . With my host family's older brother, I went to my first Qwan Ki Do lesson

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  're sore. You're waiting for results and you want to do something about it ... then on pi day all you have to do is follow up that email or note with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  withdrawing their application from MIT, by instructing us that they do not wish ... up-to-date. Usually we do this by deleting and remaking lists. However

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  Activities Period), the month where we can do whatever we want (be that classes ... .  It's a week-long "boot camp" during IAP where you do a lot of workshops

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  ." Every time I re-read that, I wonder what possessed me to agree to do this ... overview of go playing computers 10 tricks you can do with a hat How to tell

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  on this. For now, let's do a time warp and go back a couple hours. It ... through the trees. I do hope this nice weather stays as long as possible

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013