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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  snapshot of it in orbit: It didn't do so hot on the re-entry... we lost 2 ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  part of the creation (you also pour a little water on the neckline for ... before, it is a piece of weight that you put on paper. Or other stuff. They ... lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  have no idea what’s going on in 6.006 (Algorithms), and “The First Law of ... other life-related struggles on top of school still sucks. On Monday of ... Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  the properties of things and how to engineer new materials with the ... about the importance of having a diverse range of backgrounds on a team ... International Student Office website). You can read more about it on this ISO page

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  Fourth-of-July-ness). I had a truly "American" Fourth of July. I was on ... this one has Facebook on it. :) 0. Just a taste of the festivities ... My most vivid recollection of a July 4 celebration came from a book

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  focus on the arts. They were just in their 3rd year of opening and were ... , she stopped us. She was sitting on one of the empty desks by the door ... people we thought we could be friends with on our first day of 9th grade

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  can do it entirely on my own time, hoping to solidify some of the things ... pressure. In the proverbial pool of knowledge, if I stand on one side and dip ... , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  , here are some of my photos. This one is of a cat on a Senior House ... [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  documented some of the sleepless night I spent the other day working on what ... life. But then I checked the forum on the course website (MIT has a ... far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  some of my more outgoing classmates get their freaks on, then get sternly ... 'm on the dance floor all night, injuring the rest of the party guests ... night my dorm went on a three-hour tour of Boston Harbor with the Spirit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor ... and saw: Divine intervention? On my way back to the Student Center ... Department of Applied Mechanical Engineering in an Urban Environment

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  had fabricated something out of nothing. I clung on to my friend because ... school demons are, in fact, gone because I overcame my fear of living on an ... look like I wasn't on the verge of exploding. Adjusting my dress so I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  for riding on the T. Their product has received the support of both the ... Ring Theory, at their website. Isn't technology cool? That's the kind of ... The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  reschedule exams (like my exam on Friday potentially), the Dean of Student Life ... Several weeks ago a kid, a sophomore on my floor, contracted a strand of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  “culture shock” and see how fast of a learner I was. I'm sort of a ... experience new places, but it was so fun to rely on the Chinese language to ... year here at MIT, I plan on taking advantage of MISTI-China's internship

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  't have the months of the off-season training to rely on, but the new rule ... freedom, skating fast, jumping high, spinning faster. On my own, I played around with working on new programs too. No training regimens, workouts

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  the number of students whose parents went to MIT. Ej wrote, "I plan on ... take. I thought that the number was 2 but I saw on a website that it was ... 've updated the website with all of the videos from the DVD (as well as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  completed classes on difficulty, pace, and other factors on a scale of 0 to 7 ... show up on your transcript. Of course, as a first-semester freshman, you ... on your own). Take advantage of the resources your professors and TAs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a Wednesday, and Christmas happening on a Saturday have culminated in a perfect

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  of the cell influence behavior. Biomechanics on different length scales ... before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... jumped around and had a tour of careers: judge, astronaut, movie star

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006