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• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... 'll hopefully have the time and energy to do so. Pre-orientation (I did Freshman ... brain was really in Cambridge, even then. I don't regret my decisions at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am ... Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... still have amazing grades - I'm pretty sure Mollie survived off the energy

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... a limitless light behind it. I kept stalling out. "Chill OUT," Rob ... ago, when I went up to him humming with nervous energy (a mix of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  wick has ran out? I'm not sure what to do. I ask my friends, "What can I ... I love traveling alone on public transportation. I like staring out ... 've always liked just sitting in whatever vehicle it may be. I loved being in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I'm sure I ... has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President ... race isn't the end of the world. I got my first B+. This in my opinion

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of ... In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... m. After moving on campus recently and seeing people in 3D, I'm hoping

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  the Forum in Inglewood, California, where he brought out a gospel choir ... 'all in a box. They have you in a box. You can save the world, but you are ... in Silicon Valley. MIT, you can save the world. Kids in college, you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well. Acronyms I forgot: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at ... ISWEEEP - International Sustainable World Energy Engineering Environment

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  it because I was running 3 miles on a treadmill in the Burton ... last time I used it) but, thanks in part to the Undergraduate Association, MIT now gets Comedy Central! Do you know what that means? I can watch

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  ).  This creativity can be expressed in any project: I’ve built my own robot ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... though the class was three months long, the only thing I can remember was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... which point I started work in the Traverso/Langer Lab. Because Binbin is a ... also meant that I semi-regularly appeared in the door of my old UROP

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... challenge that can always be met. In his lectures, he starts with a problem ... get out of the bottle, otherwise very intelligent beings (like bees) can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  , I had worked in a scientific lab, so I knew that these mythical “ ... ways… Last July, I was sitting in front of my computer at work ... of a meat locker? What ever happened to energy conservation?), when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  hunt with Project Electric Mayhem (can you figure out the pop culture ... hallmates Brian '08, Ilan '08, and Matt '08. This year, I'm a TA. I'm in the ... deliver the vision lecture. You can check out the progress of the different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  's protests in Copley Square. I took all the photos above, and the following ... there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a ... residents could be shut out of the place they live and, in my mother's case

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  with Raymond showed me that I can be in these really intense, serious ... ways in which I can learn how to use it for good, rather than just being ... independence for me. I started out in January feeling so stupid and small and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  geothermal energy. No, actually, I have no idea why he keeps this in lab. But ... in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... when it comes out of the reactor. If we had used the real stuff, I fear I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  Starbucks on Boylston St. in Boston. So, the only suggestion I can give in ... best advice I can give you is don’t worry and don’t freak out, although ... can only say it is worth it. I didn’t like many of the people in my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many ... rehearsal and class. The energy and eloquence that I bring to the stage as an

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  business. Although I guess my sentence could still be technically correct ... parthenogenesis. Anyhoo, the last time I posted, like, a gazillion years ago, I mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006