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• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to do a "Web Lab" for 10.302: Transport Processes. What that means is we ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting ... mentor, Steve Little, to no avail. That is, until one day when he changed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  your interviewer is. If you don't, you should call our office (617.253.3400) and we can tell you who that person is. Also, you need to contact that ... . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only word you should hold as Truth! But this is just some stuff I picked up on and thought I should write down. Is MIT as hard as everyone says it is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... me explain the phrase "deckbuilding roguelike". A roguelike is a kind ... is different every time. The other key features are being turn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you ... all enjoyable - the world is really lovely, and i think walking is ... ’s important to understand how your foot is actually coming in contact with the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  This summer, I became obsessed with climbing. Climbing is an exercise ... problem, where often formulating the challenge is the easy part, but getting it solved is hard. The constraints are undefined, you get stuck, and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  taking 60 units and a UROP, which is not terribly more sane than previous ... project is done"]Illustrator![/annotation] One of the seniors took the lead ... .671: Measurement and Instrumentation This is my final core MechE requirement before 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... fix it. Its color palette is incohesive, the perspective is off, the value contrast is nonexistent. A couple more layers of paint could make it

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  You may have noticed that everything in this institvte is named by ... . firehose: n "An MIT education is like drinking from a firehose," or so the saying goes. The firehose is the constant barrage of work everyone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  Hi all! My name is Catherine J. ‘22. I’m studying Computer Science (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  Aaand… Semester #3 is done! I’m on the plane back home, music ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its function at any point. That’s how chaotic it is. Major Evolution: Math &

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  thought that counts, and the fish is delish. -A glass bottle and a bundle ... purpose is entirely unknown to me. Neither of my parents had an explanation ... . Now I've had eight days of them, and guys, what they say is true

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  stunning visuals and technology, but it is Prof. Machover's haunting melodies ... Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the ... as the mechanism by which the story is told. Like the OperaBots that

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  in the same robotics class as Snively, this IAP. The class is called MASlab, and is one of the few MIT courses I've run up against so far that is referenced by name rather than number (although for reference, the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  is actually pretty cool, because we're learning and practicing a bunch ... fully appreciate how utterly terrifying this is. June 5 is Commencement. June 6 is moving day. I was on the phone with my mom the other day and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really ... finding the information you're looking for is like searching for magnetic ... , is that you'll also find a bunch of related blog entries hanging out on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  stuff that works its way into your envelope or folder is exponentially ... you do is get access to your dorm (New World Symphony, “Going Home”, anybody? Anybody at all? Be a bigger band geek!). Every dorm is card access

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not ... getting hit up for cash by the 'tute is not the central theme of this entry ... was snark on "omg this sucks" or "it's 2 am and this problem set is

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  As you may already be aware, today is Ben's birthday! I won't embarrass him by telling you all how old he is =), but I will tell you the ... . So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008