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• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Caleb is a rising sophomore at MIT. He is currently studying Computer ... , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88 ... ) is "life is short." His phone is currently at 1% battery, but it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  apples at Honey Pot Hill orchards, fallen in love with my roommate’s gummy bear vitamins, discovered the necessary evil of laundry, watched the sun ... clearly not a wise decision. And how the many incredible events at MIT all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  Hi folks, Ben here, with an update from The Nance, who called me at ... way. I'll keep you updated over the course of the day. Let's use this ... not born on my birthday. :-( He was born at 10:40PM on 1/11/06, weighing

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  accept. Students who will have completed at least two terms of study with ... to MIT is during your second term of study. Students who at the time ... MIT admits a small number of interesting, talented transfer students
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  : One of Petey’s former students came in to give a talk about his work at ... . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  School of Management. Frank Lee, co-founder at Bevi. MBA at MIT Sloan ... Electrical Engineering at MIT. Colin Sidoti, director of product at Charitweet ... Simmons, founder at Curative Orthopaedics, designer of comfortable

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  . Instead of having an actual intro, I'll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here ... day. Let's look back at February 13th and move on from there. Moving to MIT, I took a train, which was a rather nice mode of transportation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  likes our Facebook profile pictures were getting. At the end of it all, we ... some of my closest friends around town at odd hours, it was hard for ... state of humanity at http://theworstthingsforsale.com/ 2) Embrace your

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  at exploring different methods of solar cell characterization and ... have made at MIT so far. Going abroad made me realize the scale of ... Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... Class of 2009 14% admit rate. We received 10,443 applications and admitted 1495 of those students, making this the most selective year ever in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high ... “[redacted] PSET”. Q: How will you capitalize the word at the beginning of ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the first day of classes ever for the MIT Class of 2014. The past couple of weeks at MIT have been Orientation for the incoming students -- they have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  think of nefarious nerds tapping away at Internet terminals, fueled by ... that hacking indeed originated at MIT, where computing and cleverness go ... steps of the Student Center. The Tech Model Railroad Club has been

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... continuity, like living groups. other groups collapse, often from a cascade of small failures. a single bad recruitment cycle goes by, maybe because of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  being in a hospital while also managing being a student at MIT:   1 ... color pictures of dolphins.   6. Miscommunications between doctors ... again, or at least for a very very very long time. Also, now I'm terrified

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... one against the concrete, like my heart at the mention of coats. I ... at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... . Puddles of water sprayed up onto my backpack, and I wondered if I would be ... moved onto the written portion of the test, where I assigned

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024