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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  , Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts ... years from now, and there's no need to start getting into the details of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... course road “filled” up (quotation marks because neither of us have future ... excited about this last class, because we’ve been dipping our toes into the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  important of an update to not post imminently. I went back to visit my friends and family over winter break, and found out one of my high school ... my lap and bunt his head into my hand for pets, and I lose all track of

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  extensive yet beautiful notes (back when i was into that sort of thing for ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this ... , since my parents are overseas and i'm in boston, so most of these old

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  we had more important business to attend to. A chorus of "Kuwait ... . On the ground level, we ran into a group of freshmen that was really a ... campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also ... -1 into the machines. The calculator habit is so strong that even 5 ... Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  sparkling blanket of freshly fallen snow. Even if motion is important to these ... . There weren’t a ton of them, and most of them were still tucked into their ... with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  most of all, we want it beautiful. VC-talk is speckled with grandiose ... aren’t quite sure how that change will ripple outwards into our global ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  . There were a few giant red flags on the first day. I won't go into all of ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... because that aesthetic was chic in 1970 when MacG was built. It consists of ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  If you know anything about MIT, you know that there's a lot of ... their numbers than anything else, that the courses of study span between 1 and 24 (but not 13, 19, or 23) n 1 and 24 (but not 13), that important

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... MIT. The bipolar weather. The strange architecture. The random middle-of ... class for mechanical engineers - you learn the basics of using a mill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... second episode my brother would wake up and take his throne in front of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  important at MIT... ALRIGHT you can snap out of that pristine serene dream ... drowned out by the blinding rays of a familiar sunset. I adore the sight ... ’t going to jump out of the screen and stop me from carving some pumpkins

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  into it. Leo asked, "is it true that rejected MIT applicants get auto ... pool. Some of my friends have been saying I got in because of my citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  i fuck up by staring too tragically into the distance on an important ... if the speaker has broken into song, Disney-style. Sums of periodic ... have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  were all on campus, 20 or so of us packed into someone’s dorm room, and i ... slowly slipped back into journalism and the pursuit of stories via an ... second episode of my podcast and getting into this digital media pop

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  teaches you how to identify important problems and what types of problems ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  ’s an important and integral part of research with animals, but it ... February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains of beautiful little ... of time learning basic lab techniques like how to slice brain tissue

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’s much more helpful to ask Anxiety why it’s acting up instead of ignoring

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020