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• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... take advantage of it. Don't be afraid to approach your professors ... value of Rush. There's sometimes a grain of truth to the stereotypes you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... muscles involved, but this is where you REALLY feel it"]force of my thighs ... you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy ... the control room with me. It's great to be able to have this hour of ... —it's a time where I'm forced to sit down, relax, and enjoy music. And you

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we ... lose popularity with younger generations and forcing older generations to ... creating an easy way to classify the different sizes of rice grains (larger

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a ... the mechanism of these reactions. The idea is to extract how self ... teasing out some of the artist juice I’d like to think I have inside me. Our

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... . All three of these dorms have spectacular murals, but I wanted to talk ... Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  was waiting for my plane back to California.   Average amount of ... . That’s not to say that I had no work. Each of the three videos for my ... , so I had plenty of time to evaluate my course load for the semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... the stellar occultation technique that led to the discovery of Uranus ... invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... conveniently close to a lot of things, something I grow more and more thankful of ... Biomolecular Systems), I still have plenty of time to eat and peruse more HASS

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT ... . We took a tour of the exhibition, then had some time to ourselves. A ... opera to sit through. Some food pictures, courtesy of Linh V. '13

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core ... has given rise to a new universe of possibilities for uses of the ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  of this: I’ve stepped out of my box. I tend to create patterns ... be applied to. I think that’s one of the greatest strengths of ... needed. It forces us to adapt, and that is an invaluable skill that we all

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff. Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour ... , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  report. You can download one off of the website if you need one. Your ... to see from the comments that most of you, while understandably ... knowing that one year from now, you'll be getting ready to take some time of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and ... kid who used to sit on the far left side of my orgo lecture hall (Hi ... give NGOs the chance to work at a much higher level of efficiency: lots

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use ... to wander down to the Porter Room on Sunday morning and grab some of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... sleepless, as I try to keep up with all of the readings and do all of the ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... great website of Scott Hughes, my professor for 8.022. I was only ... way to see what physics is really like, learn a heck of a lot of problem

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of ... , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report ... of these names may be familiar to you. I was only able to go to two of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008