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• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a ... sign up for these classes on the P.E. website through a lottery that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... time in the Pappalardo Lab and the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity. In the other two sections we learn how to draw and use CAD, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring ... /wk. dining plan) thought it was crazy that I was considering living in a dorm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... that big a deal). There was a knock at the door, and she wheeled in the ... on the airplane. One of the options in the weirdly niche selection was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  to answer them now... Matt's Helper asked, "What did you major in, when ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... technical details in the MIT admission form (like my achievements etc.) would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... [annotation note="the U belongs in labour!!"]spelling that feels slightly off ... boiled alive in 90 deg C) writing the date the ‘wrong way’ (so apparently

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  weekly. Classes (not including in class time) [annotation note ... schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up ... stipend hasn't come in yet and I already paid off my summer housing so I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  't take too long to finish; you can even finish the game in one sitting. As a tip, buy processors and memory in a 3 to 7 ratio. A Dark Room. This ... two in the game. You can play this for over a month and still have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... ' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it ... security card) into my closet, which stayed in a state of constant chaos ... ."]opening[/annotation] of the closet door instantly spiked my blood pressure levels. So in an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  (webcast embedded from commencement website. I'll return to this blog ... graduating), in the embedded webcast above.  On Wednesday night, I had the ... destabilization, of an inevitable shift in your identity, of a sense of who, what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in some fun before chaos resumes again. In case you missed it, thousands of ... science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... station. But Prof. Jeffrey Karp, an investigator in the Harvard-MIT Health ... immune system, and tested these nifty band-aids on pig intestine in the lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  buying, even when they do not have any say in how it is used. This goes for ... It's interesting that I've never been even remotely involved in anything political, and in all such situations would always be the outsider

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later, because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... loft bed where the wall is white and blue and red, though not in any sort

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their ... equation describing a particle in a gravitational field"]a Schrödinger

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... interview? A: You can find your interviewer's information by logging in to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012