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• 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 / 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  quite enjoyable. Again, it was all about vectors, and I can do those. Our ... actually allowed to declare yet, but I can take this class. From what I ... sure what could be. In the words of Veruca Salt, "I want one noooooooow

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  and I went to see the one of these 50 student groups in action ... ). Although I don't want to give away the play's ending - you can rely on ... ). I also loved how the director, Kellas '10, used color as a reflection

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  has a question: Jess, I had a question, how do you get placed in your ... ://urltea.com/1p1d. You can only vote once per computer, but you can also use your i ... think a vegan would survive? I am in fact a vegetarian at MIT, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  out of Legos. You know, you can get a UROP here? I mean c'mon, who ... happens in there. I've found that it's sometimes easy to forget that this ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  on a joke. I know I'm really in the zone when I can simultaneously talk ... musing about how I can improve the session I'm giving on the fly. Adittedly ... of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... Boston. Freshman year, I could literally lie in bed and know whether or not

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  feel like you have succeeded. So how should I be defining success in my ... 've hit success. So how can I possibly know that I'm making decisions for the right reasons? How do I know I'm not "sheeping" along in life

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask ... "how do i want to change as a person in college" or "what are my goals of ... an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021