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• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  weeks to do something, what’s the point of doing it all in the first three ... ="I’d always avoided it because the US health system seemed so intimidating"]first ... for that type of problem. Anyway, I tried my best to live with the pain

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13 ... during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking ... with scholarships that pay nearly the total $50,000 cost of freshman year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  from a test robot that everyone built in the first week of [annotation ... students could download it themselves. The morning of my first day, I learned ... of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  visit. The Huang-Hobbs BioMakerSpace is the first space I’ve ever heard of ... map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have ... Playsentations, the final Toy Design hoorah where all of the groups present their ... group. I had one of the two speaking roles so I, theoretically, had my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  santizer dispensers next to the buttons of elevators on the first floor ... missed the class last week because we were all THAT sick. And one of the ... of lectures! This is pretty bad, guys. They should just shut down the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra ... . Basically, no matter which of the above five classes you take your first term ... but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  varsity sport. The range of gym classes is really outstanding, some of them ... lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute, and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize for Girls is the country's preëminent math competition for young women in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media ... the Internet,' one small part of the larger 'Internet Studies ... aspirations of its architects, and by the local and global communities that have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  the first row of the mezzanine. Afterward, it was time for some fine ... Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line ... I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  the US tied with Italy 1-1 in the first round of the tournament, I think ... was having a lengthy relationship with Todd Rundgren around the time of ... with history, and I want to get back and see the 99% of the sights that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there ... kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending ... gaining control of the ball) if there are more players on offense than

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  of the staff, less time-consuming work on the students' part). First ... machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of ... to. Keep in mind, there are about 50 people in my section of the class

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We ... an old entry of Ben's, or as the guy voted Most Likely to Cure Cancer ... believe this means I should be taking ninja classes or something of the sort

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  you for several reasons. The first (and, sadly, primary reason) is that ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few ... sale for $409.00 and I pulled the trigger. It's a Canon XS and my first

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American ... intimidating as well. Not in the number of people. But because of how I ... beneficial to me for the most part. So during the summer before MIT, one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  different experimental methods. The first day of class, Professor Cheeseman ... wow and dazzle them on stage. This year was the first time that I had ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  cast the situation in the linguistic frame of an 8 year-old, the auto ... -E-Cheese: addictively entertaining in the most kindergartenish, brain-frazzling sense of the word. Whilst dragging myself from the caffeinated fog of Internet

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  start on -- his advisor, Prof. John Essigmann, the first author of ... considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly unique to open MIT's research to the world. I'm sure most of you have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007