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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale ... course catalog, but pleasantly surprised to find that I can actually speak

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  times and whatnot for his programs so it's easier for people to use. Then ... grinding 009 for two or three days, then using my spare time to apply to internships, and then using that spare time to practice coding. I did well at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling ... would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is the name we will use in all official print and email communication from
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  information faster than you can provide it? I tried to brainstorm some resources ... astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the ... picked me up at 11am. We drove to an Irish Pub, where I used onion rings

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... ="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images ... time, skills that come in handy when it comes to hand-crafted memes

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  admissions at M.I.T., adding that she thought it was unfair to base decisions ... not use the scores in admissions decisions until it is satisfied with ... their length and score. "We're very data driven here, so we're going to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  right now and I guess I'm not that surprised it decided to turn off as ... vocabulary terms next to their math equivalent and tape it to the wall above my ... well use one sometime. My drop form is approved, but not submitted to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  downforce, it is theoretically possible for the car to stay on the ceiling of ... Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull 4 Gs? Better yet, are you interested in working on a team to design

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  . Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... and I am excited to see how it intersects with my coursework at MIT, my ... different forces that shape cities and the challenges that they face. I can

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People ... "Communication Systems and Networks", or as I like to call it, "How the Internet

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  storage locker we'd used to hold things from our previous apartment. It was ... 10 am to 4 pm. Since everyone in the house has classes and work, it ... disarray for two weeks, but we decided to move its furniture around once we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  thing she wanted to do more and then sort of throwing herself at it. She ... . (It was about two high school girls with no special powers who try to be ... looming college applications, I’d have no time to actually see it through

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  company, too, uses robots in its pipeline to sort packages and route them to ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  'd share the two that I have and do some reflecting on who I used to be ... , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program ... ...I ended up still registering, and I can't really remember why. I think it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  Villain Swivel Chair – In case you use your degree from MIT to become an ... How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago ... . And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  you fail to field a team. Well, you can't ever waste money, ever, especially when it could be used to buy free food for the floor, so I was kind ... skate well." Sometimes it's as fun to watch as it is to play. Still, we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  CPW website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If you have ... Headquarters/check-in. It's a good place to relax, and to meet other parents. It ... can answer many questions. For those driving to campus: I've been living

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at ... -controlled user interface. To everyone else, it looks like I'm just standing there ... . You can move around the camera to view the object from different angles

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  hard to figure out, use it in these three ways," and we didn't get a lot ... parametric equations useful, and I like it. Some other classes, namely 8 ... couldn't talk about the impacts of colonialism as well as I can now. So it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  . They told you that you could do anything. They forgot to add that you can ... why I was there. It's cliche to say that I came back to push my limits ... experiences to shape my interests and goals? It was around this time that I

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014