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• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good question, which is why I went trekking to Professor Warren Seering (my new ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  easiest question: Pete: Where in NJ are you from? I'm from Middletown, New ... while they did it. I'm sure you can see how many problems that would cause ... hold off on some interesting pictures I have for you so I can follow

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  had no idea what it actually entailed. I just got in the uber and ended up somewhere in Boston with a ticket. When we sat down I asked someone how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  MIT experience in a new framework. I appreciate that. I'll never take ... really sad, I saw it as an opportunity to experience something new, maybe ... from MIT. I was burned out after last semester, and I don't know how I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  's freshman year advisor) I ran into him yesterday in Lobby 7, snapped this ... finger board. I got it on ebay from a really nice guy in Spendora Texas ... 's the blog entry? I'm not seeing it. Are you busy or something? When you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  my corny little flashlight: Now I can use a milling machine and a ... put those new skills to work just last night, when I helped turn (turn ... concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  Every IAP, I travel. I can't help it. There's this wanderlust gremlin in me that's always eager to experience new places. Access to global ... something new every day. The cultural differences appeared not in dramatic

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  , bad blogger) but I do have this fancy webcam on my new Macbook (yes, the new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them ... two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any ... in Maseeh 1) It’s new. Or at least it feels that way. Maseeh used be a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)     ... walked into a door with my nose in a book. How I didn’t break my neck going ... coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... , you can figure out the DNA coding for the receptor. Voila! His UROP in ... when dramatic results come in or are on their way. The anticipation can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  , scientific discovery, humanism, etc... When I discovered this dichotomy in ... and put down this stroke for all that you will do! But I have noticed in ... piece of flotsam, floating back and forth in the small corner of how him

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of ... Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I mostly live off my credit card.) It's always good how to learn to cook new

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  .009 makes me (and how I can't stop thinking about it). Sorry it's been so long ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... hurricane in Boston since I've been here, other than the remnants which come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and ... psets can actually teach you stuff that you'll need to know in the real ... Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 2. 12:02 PM I'm in D-Lab right now (it occurs to me that I ... (I was in a single, which actually really sucked for Orientation), so ... misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009