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• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly ... , "Dang, what did I do wrong? Oh the irony." MIT is hard. I'm not going to ... the future. There's no need to be too stressed. 3. Remember that a life

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  whispering, "We're going to be at the bottom of our math class!" (They're both ... are designed by the higher beings that pretend to rule over the planet ... , contrary to what some might believe, but teachers will not generally hold

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  difficult to remember, but i'm the type of person who can't not prepare for ... didn't enjoy not being in a live classroom environment and started to ... i had enough time to make it to the studio without being late. i was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  material -- sets out not simply to educate but to also be part of the early ... the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another ... -lab that allows users to carry out a bacterial transformation and enables the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  loose drawings can be sequenced together to not only visually illustrate ... knowledgeable and willing to help. We emailed him after the talk asking for advice ... /animation classes as a negative. The flip side to this is that MIT can be very

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation ... . That’s why I dropped to [annotation note="Physics 1 Long"]8.01L ... . It has virtually no application to me or my life, and I will probably

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  deal more to offer than money, and the key question each of you will face ... not be afraid to be unconventional, to do something that nobody else has ... not be well-marked, the scaling of some predetermined ladder. It may

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys ... Afee). The job description was to do some penetration testing with some typical ... week introduction to the software security world. What that meant is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  , especially at my level, is probably not a realistic goal to set in the first ... classes at MIT where the final project doesn’t have to work to be considered ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  glad to not have any psets or major exams. Keep scrolling to find out why ... to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion ... GO WRONG, WILL GO WRONG! Maybe that's not the best takeaway, but just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  :) Week 1: Introduction There wasn't much in this section, to be honest. The ... ," or being mistaken about how much you will like something in the future ... AMC and NSLI-Y were the be-all and end-all to my college acceptance, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  laugh tracks, the special was expected to be a flop. The special turned ... this; I used voice typing to draft the majority of this blog! I’m not ... issue will be necessary to combat it. I think this line from Garfinkle

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  2006 semester, Course 20 will be rechristened Biological Engineering ... . Regardless of what it looks like, this is a tribute to our institute, not a poorly-spelled tribute to Matt McGann. It's Eiffel's fault, not ours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  -just- a little too far away to be comfortable. but honestly, the distance ... , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first time how i'll be quite sad leaving this place when i'm gone. the familiar

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn ... already off to a rough start. (Although I guess spring break had not ... I was not mentally/physically prepared to venture off campus quite yet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  received an email letting us know that the event would be to announce MIT ... ? Where would they be coming from? What would be their approach to the ... to look cool. It probably failed, considering I was the only person

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  !) with self-initiative that are willing to put in the time necessary to ... wheel has to be removed to be able to get in or out of the car. Also ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  votes to admit the applicants who are admitted, not to reject the ... the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... being human and for recognizing that I am the same. I had a long response

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  tunnel. The reason all of these things need to be done by next Thursday is because I will be spending Thursday night packing for my week long trip to ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  involving the most fun (legal) detours. To be honest, I barely know where the ... cute not to post on here. I'm UROPing in the Personal Robots group at the ... into lab sometimes and be startled by the Jibo that I sit near turning to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019