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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at ... fall, so I found myself with a sports shaped hole in my heart. There were

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taken Spanish Conversation and Composition in the fall semester, I thought

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass ... . The particular game I was in last night, "Krazny Octybr", has now run ... one I played in Saturday night). And each run has been drastically

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  , so I guess I'll find out how much I've learned pretty soon. [In case ... of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  'd really been wanting to remedy. Specifically, I wanted to learn how to ... II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... showing how you can build your very own Tamagotchi. (Also check out the end

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... Technology in 1990, Greiner founded iRobot with a classmate, Colin Angle, and ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  , but I think that’s as much as we accomplished. You can picture how it ... minutes cringing and rolling around in bed, looking like this: How did ... Facebook (in which case, I have to forcefully pluck my eyes off cute cat

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common ... would assist us in getting to know you. Obviously, the greater the ... in submitting evaluations and supportive documentation. We recommend
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  how our knees can keep our body up but still be loose, not locked in ... 'll probably bump into more people i know. i'm not sure how i'll handle that. in ... there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  diffraction patterns, I had a vague idea of how to structure (no pun intended ... underlying physics of strained silicon. Overall, I was happy with how this ... Engineering’s website because it has a neat background graphic that I wanted to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  'm on to you, Melinda. In fact, I've kept the 2002 Time cover asking, "CAN ... Magazine In Style--featuring tips on buying your own helicopter and $5000 ... I discovered shortly after completing this blog entry that, much like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  understand how these little lizards can defy gravity. It turns out that gecko ... reduce the time a patient spends in surgery. Additionally, it can be ... lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  , I know how frustrating that can be. (Funny story- NJ has about 5 or 6 ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and ... appearance of concern, how can you explain the compassion that I saw that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then ... poses a professional threat. I’m privileged in that I never expected to ... planned, by June, I will hold bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and computer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... -pop because lord knows how many dances I learned between 4th and 7th grade ... throughout my life, so they're pretty great how do I find dances? this is a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  (yet clean) quotes: "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can ... them engage in a ceremony that, uh, can't be printed here. Ruth was not ... hurried over to buy our tickets "There's no crime in giving yourself over

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  housing. nehalita asked, "how's the tennis in MIT? =)" You can learn more ... .. but it all depends on how i perform next weekend." Good luck with the ... wrote, "I can't come to CPW cause of an orch competition so I was just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... small town in Alabama is one of the top in our state. (I know Alabama isn ... 's overall rank in class, which can be problematic. Experienced admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006