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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  bin. I could have scored more if some nuts on the side of my robot had ... about the contest description on Bryan's blog. The four years at MIT are ... . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  out and the thought of having random paint on my face always disturbed ... foreign. I was the kind of person that needed to dwell on something before ... freedom of smashing your playdough together. The bravery of painting on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  about the other new member of the secret team: Margaret ’23. Margaret is ... they will say yes. I know this, because I’ve done it. On one of the ... of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  the Pappalardo room. The room has pictures on the walls of MIT faculty ... had even decided to come to MIT. We met a party on the rooftop of Baker ... This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... [/caption] [caption id="attachment_90800" align="aligncenter" width="507"] the new ... ![/caption] text for accessibility: yellow aspen leaves the liminality of public

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  ). But before I know it, sophomore year will be right on top of me ... consequently starting several blogs I haven't finished) I've been working on some ... surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  dropped on the week of Drop Date I dropped 2.001/Mechanics and Materials and 6.008 on the week of drop date. 2.001 was honestly the roughest ... , but moving out is really rough.   8 semesters of being on CC I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... been internalized. They grow on you. (For those of you curious, in order ... -induced stress (yes, already), and of course free food. Already, many notable

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  's new freshmen attend my classes attend a truly horrendous number of ... mental space working on the loft! And to be honest, it was really hard. Of ... [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  (but still close to both of them). On the first floor the Harvard Book ... out a third a cup of butter (apparently there are nice little lines on ... off the extra baking soda on the top of the spoon.      Now the fun part

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... game of life on the lowest difficulty setting there is. Other fortune ... and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some ... . the work of discovery shall carry on, but i can easily say that i have ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab ... Sciences department instead. (There are not so many good pictures on that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  of break. (Well, initially, I said "no academic work but I'll start on research", but of course I didn't start on research either.) So on Friday ... ="59152" /] On our return, I did several loads of laundry and went to bed with that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  continuous nucleation of pharmeceutical ingredients on polymer surfaces at the ... back in New York, and this is definitely a new experience being on a new ... the amount of work taking its toll on me - I rarely have free time since

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the ... tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the residents on the north side of Highways 36. Obviously not everyone in my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  team that oversees CPW planning (more on them later!), each member of the ... . This is just a selection of some of the tasks on our checklist leading up ... audience of over 1,000. On MIT’s urban campus, there are only a handful of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  entire psyche is built on the plot of Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core ... resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... associate with growing up in New England. There's excellent coffee, beautiful

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  isolation, on the other hand, has honestly been kind of nice. I know I shouldn ... with both of those happening at once than either of them happening on its ... . I hadn’t made progress on any of these things before I looked out the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -years in particular to meet new people, so the show was a wonderful means of ... showcase our skills and attract new members in a way that being on campus ... -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020