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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to ... for you, I've been taking photos for my lab reports in 2.671. This ... of toys per lab bench. This is the setup for an experiment where we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  I participated in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program ... a result, he took 14 classes per term (*gasp* -- most people take 4 or ... Chamber Music Society, and the Symphony Orchestra. First of all, I want to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  , but I really loved product design, app dev, and web dev. Embarrassingly ... ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim, I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  Facebook and TV shows and every web site and textbook and advertisement ... --it really changes the way you go about your life. I've found myself wondering ... rivalries. And since media is everywhere, this class also means I get to write

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... ? Everyone was understandably reluctant to drive, so I volunteered. After all, I’ve had my South African driver’s license for three years and was no

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  I talked with MIT undergrads who make YouTube videos! Read on to ... TV shows I watched that week!   How did you start with YouTube? Jocelyn: I started making videos about a year ago because our basketball

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. While I was a graduate student, CMS merged ... think and comment publicly on science and technology, i.e. to be a public

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  * * * There are 37 days before graduation, so I decided that Room Cleaning must begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... completely sleeping through ticket launch, I'm here to liveblog our reaction to the event. It's my first time, the vibes are immaculate, and I'm SO

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally ... 't just a leaf.) It was something out there trying to tell me that I need to wake up, buckle down, and work. Which means I need to stop fooling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  !) ------------------------------------- Jess Kim wrote: "I put in my jobs section that I work as a freelance web ... A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... Lin wrote: "I recently got my SAT I results back (760 maths 740 reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  internship.   7:00 This morning I woke up nervous as hell, mainly because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end ... . This is my last week here, so I had to pay it forward. Issue is, bakeries

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times ... overnight. Often I hear debates about Course 18 among students of different

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  FRIDAY EVENING reading about obscure saints?!) She didn't just Google ... shows similar (though less lengthy) Google search fixations: the periodic ... feats (such anecdotes are, I think, the only way to do some shred of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... to ask! If I can't answer them, I'll tell you so! Drew asked: "Could you tell us more about what happens during Orientation? I think I pretty

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  to get there Okay well i googled and like Is it gonna be a run instead ... Here’s the thing, I’m usually very lucky on flights. I’m the epitome ... ” person.[annotation note="Is that a type of person? I don't actually know

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  pioneering the latest advances in party technology, I'm slowly becoming a ... colleagues are calculating the limit of sleep as time approaches 3 PM, and I ... Must-Do's. So far, dim has been summed roughly every other weekend, and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  As you may have picked up from my post about SOPA, I'm an unashamed, unabashed law and policy geek. Before I began working at MIT, I was a Research Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I still stay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  , things are, as you might imagine, quite busy around here. I'll do my best ... you were at MIT?" I spent some time with both Architecture (Course IV) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005