Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  develop a product based on a theme: this year, it was "Rough, Tough, Messy ... 'm not very knowledgeable on how 2.009 works on the inside (if you do want ... controller, which drives the motion of the wall. On the back of each moving

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... super convenient for me to maximize my training time, especially on days ... quick nap, and set off for the airport.     On the flight, I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  universe, and everything. My roommate and I finished preliminary work on our ... . Instead of sleeping, I watched some Spanish-language television dramas on Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... devote the rest of my life to cancer research. As time went on after that ... choose from to do a research project on. I scrolled up and down the list

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  school in astronomy. As a result, the contents of the binders on my ... from organic chemistry, notes on plays by Tom Stoppard, and equations ... , it’s all space physics: notes on the fate of stars, on how galaxies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  among students. On average, the time spent on work per week is between 23 ... numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and ... -56 hours per week on just Unified. 2.009 Product Engineering Processes, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  dew had dried on the grass and the daybreak cold was over. The twins had ... three dark brown hairs on the pillow and two on the bed; the other had dropped a pillow onto the floor and left four hairs on the bed. For the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  , is all around us. Its fruits are bore on every billboard, every cereal ... on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks ... and recommendation on the politically tortuous issuance of the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th ... my backpack down on the Trail, extra stuff weighs us down emotionally ... Max Brenner (a must-have dessert stop on Boylston Street). But I no

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College ... movies on a cold, dark Halloween night. Anna: Now, picture this: Cam and I ... store. The headlights fell on a cute little kitty who jumped off the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  different floors (Conner 2 through Conner 5, Burton 1 through Burton 5) on two different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on ... forms filled out (take note, do not try to fill out all of the forms on

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  flew in on Wednesday so that we could have a day for travel and use it to ... and retired to our room.That night I tooled away on Calculus homework ... the most) at 10:30. Thinking there is no way on Earth that I'll wake up

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  rambling about my fixation about the East Coast culture and move on to CPW. :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my ... registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... than you can shake a stick at (7.20, 7.23, 7.27, 7.28, 7.29). On an even ... just run-of-the-mill icky like I do right now), you can head yourself on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . 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 ... on in the lab, the experiments were designed almost exclusively by the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to ... classically mortifying high-school-cafeteria-where-on-earth-do-I-sit dilemma

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  !] ... This blog is a long time coming. I initially anticipated making this on ... years before returning to the island it was born on to mate and lay eggs ... wingspans as a sort of sail, and angling the feathers on each wing's end to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the Chem ... Computation Structures, and I’m an active member of a fraternity on campus. Tell

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  shepherd’s pie and an apple with peanut butter for lunch. Then I work on my ... I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for next week. 2:45 p.m. It’s hard to tell whether I’m making progress on

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  ,[/annotation] and concept generation, we gave a presentation to our class on our ... between my teammates with our huge puffer jackets on and passing around a ... hangers on it. My teammate Remi and I went together, and we were taught how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023