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• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this ... -budget startups and nonprofits to pay me something resembling minimum wage for my ... was incessantly annoyed with one of them for forgetting his kitchen

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  it goes so fast, how could it be over? Then you think about specific moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  , because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the Ethiopian way, without any meat or dairy other than fish for 40 days. But this year I didn’t fully since I cook for myself with my dorm mates and it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  source: http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/yrpts/index.html (fall '09 ... the founding of MIT's course in that area. For example, Courses 1 ... Site Here's what all the numbers stand for! Course 1 - Civil and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... 's being in lab all the time for my UROP and working at the Senior Haus front ... , The Hip Show for Hip Kids. It was on the obesity epidemic in America. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  requirements for the Maker Portfolio. For current requirements, see here.  Hello ... make sure that everyone understands what we are looking for.   Q1 ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  provided me, and I’d go to McDonalds for the Wi-Fi, where I would learn all ... Acceptance Rate.” This was the case for me. I would sit there, when I had free ... go to websites that had things like: “Chance me with this SAT score and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT ... .) For those both within and outside of the Institute who have not yet ... Percent-for-Art program responsible for contributing new works of public art

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  if you’re looking for a detailed curriculum, go to http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/newcurriculum/index ... video game and joystick, a detector for interplanetary communication, HDTV ... major. Hanhan’s love for Course 6 is contagious! In high school, she

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  Mensah. What was even MORE impressive for me was that all three had videos that were featured on the website. So for your viewing pleasure, I ... . If you want to learn a little more about Dorian, check out his website

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite ... stop was that I was looking for, because I was sort of lost -- he almost ... a bench in Boston Common. After all, the heat index was 105 today

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... familiarity with probability helps. For our purposes, you can think of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the ... of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we ... sitting in silence for 10 minutes, could only give us “an upper bound of 37

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole ... of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever ... introduced me to, and which I think about a lot MIT websites (5) "Emerson

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  summer. As I stalked the ELX website for spring research opportunities, I ... [*] dressed up as Scarlet Witch for Halloween [*] saw Spider-Man: No Way Home ... place for me to embrace my interests with others who seemed to be just as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to ... the FPOP website says: Build an underwater vehicle. Make friends. Work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  ; cognitive science. (I love telling people that 'i major in 6-9' for shits and ... you to whoever read my application for seeing past my blunder. I swear I had looked up an official MIT website of some sorts before writing this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  application on the official UROP website, and send it to the UROP office for ... UROP stands for "Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program" and it ... and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023