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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  land.  If this method of flight could be harnessed in a drone or flying ... [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... ’s a full semester’s worth of cool things, none of which are particularly

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of ... Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... difficult problem, they don't ask for help after ten minutes of trying or even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  the surface area of the polymers and through other methods. The ... one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction ... of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using ... in the class). Differentiating between the lingo of add, commit, push

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel

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

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce back by tomorrow, when a bunch of my friends are going to Fire and Ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  -day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp ... Wellesley. Today was our first day of GELcamp (more formally known as Camp ... -MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) program.  For those of you that don’t know, GEL is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  between classes and the secondary method of communication in ESG. It ... choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most ... , allow you to avoid the negative sides of GIRs and go through your whole

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  , kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  . As a way to be a positive force in their community. As a method of ... When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  , improving methods. I've realized that THIS stage is the real test of whether I ... unexplored intersection of science research and public outreach. Before the ... aren't the most important part of your application. Letters of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  6.009 - Fundamentals of Programming 8.02 - Physics II (E&M) CMS ... 6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been kind of fiddling with my spring semester schedule here and there. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  ="attachment_108427" align="aligncenter" width="226"] preview of @grx.chomps! - like ... ’ve chomped at over 60! These cafes celebrate a variety of cuisines, flavors ... a collection of my all-around favorite cafes in Boston. A diverse

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  , where he swore it was one of his favorite shows ever and insisted I watch ... of immaturity like farting and pooping jokes. But as I watched, I saw a ... reminding me a bit too much of our relationship. I only then started to pick

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... progression. One day, the robot may score a lot of points. The next day, the ... small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country ... know I'm not the only Jerseyan to say this: Newark is one of the worst

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior ... . I've historically been known to be somewhat of a firecracker on campus ... looming blanket of anger or sadness underneath it. I noticed the change

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to ... culture of 'It doesn't exist? Why not? Let's do it!' And that - I found

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011