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• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  course 16, and the project, BeaverCube, is currently scheduled to launch ... Program"]UROP![/annotation] It's in the Space Systems Lab. The project is ... small satellite. The goal is to ultimately make many tiny satellites

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely wanted something to do.  MIT is no walk in the park and I wanted an ... Interphase? According to the OME's Website "Interphase is a rigorous seven

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from ... showcases, meme tags. In the past eight months, I've learned how to manage my ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  for finishing the hunt first is getting to write next year's puzzle) I ... times, all the rooms for the teams, permission to put a device in lobby 7 ... from MIT in order to make this possible. I was basically the person they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  , especially for my friends living in the fraternities (most MIT fraternities and ... It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... stairs to celebrate with Burton 3rd when Burton 3rd burst through the door

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the ... stake in the whole thing is general mechanical design, specifically as it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most ... throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This is mostly because I've given away far too many company shirts to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  . The case of Patagonia is also in stark contrast to the United States ... the reason why increasing women in tech fields is so difficult is that ... day. I hope in the future I will be able to focus on exactly that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  fellow frosh were in the same “MIT IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE AND I WANT TO GO ... has yet to be determined, the future of our tire swing is still in ... to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in ... went to a college prep school that motivated you exactly in the way you ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  in time to head back to Boston/MIT for the summer :) This is where I ... ). To ensure that Camp is free for all campers attending, the counselors ... from me. The grad student I'm working with is awesome and has casually

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  discovered the joy (not) of trying to do pullbacks in tennis shoes. But the mi ... ="Summer Science Program"]SSP[/annotation] knows that I have the tendency to do ... hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  observing what you find yourself interested in is a good way to really figure ... is the time to explore, so do make use of it. Of course, exploring is a ... good place to start. And, maybe the gym just isn't for you, which is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary ... excited that you have been selected to join us in the inaugural FYE ... field trip to the MoMA in New York this past weekend to see the exhibit

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is the ... strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... I was deferred? If you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  away in a "much less elegant fashion" than the MIT crew. The Brass Rat ... In my email this morning: The Howe & Ser Moving Company cordially invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... . Hepburn’s recipe in the midst of some online meandering, and decided to give ... . This is probably the part where I’m supposed to say, “now remember

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  though much of the time that I’m actually in Tucson, all I notice is the ... stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless ... in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022