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• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  by a player who used data from Google Earth to generate Minecraft ... In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  trip to Rome or Sweden, and I'm not going anywhere like Chocolate World. (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post-graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  of [annotation note="born to calc, forced to stat 😔 ... teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  are scrounging through weeks of your google calendar trying to figure ... also forces your thoughts to be continuously moving. Another ... even one second, your brain is forced to constantly be coming up with new

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... compelled to follow, including one that implored us to refrain from using ... still Internet though. We trickled in to Peru over the course of several

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  say RSI notification is likely to be sent after 3/14 (the website ... the website. My counselor tells me not to worry about this because MIT ... about 3 days, according to the DHL website. You may call the office for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... moment, I felt so much panic. “Oh no. What am I going to say. I literally

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems ... originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last ... . (Now if only I thought that way.) Back to studying. Followed by: Various

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  Are any of you high school seniors who are Massachusetts residents? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  to your eye. Here's a visual example from this website (which I ... Disclaimer 1: It was very difficult to know how to pitch this. If it's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  do? From the website: Project Naptha automatically applies state ... website. It's pretty amazing. Essentially, it detects text from memes, image ... . Then, using some nifty image processing, it allows you to remove that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT appeals to you,” I wrote:  Pursuing Course 6.3 and UROPing at the Media Lab

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like a Victorian woman but now creates chaotic Google Docs at 2AM (though

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  It occurs to me that I haven't told you much about what I'm doing ... to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on ... walked out of the room to talk with his supervisor), Stephen sitting across

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  . Website: http://www.tuckermax.com Be sure to check out the website for ... I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in ... !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  decelerating and twisting to the right from the force of the impact, began to ... As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary ... to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  who you want to be, and to force yourself along the high-level path ... there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... homework projects were interesting and forced you to think, excuse the cliche ... Google Earth Elevations we figured there had to be a better way

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  lectures threw me off in that when there are live lectures, I’m forced to ... experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... ombre color that matched my winter jacket. It was also a relief to have my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020