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• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in by, like Bonsai Kittens. But I really can't imagine why somebody would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough ... , I had worked in a scientific lab, so I knew that these mythical “ ... ways… Last July, I was sitting in front of my computer at work

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  "antispin." In other words, if your arm is moving clockwise, your wrist would ... I'm using. Here we also specify how each component is connected to ... . I'm hoping that Kicad would already have all the footprints for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  effort I put in to make a change. How long can I hope that this time ... 's how it's been for me in the past. I have to accept that there are some ... I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  appreciated the actual view in front of my eyes, just because how shitty I felt ... ...shh[/caption] These numbers are mostly based off of how confident I am in myself. I ... :("]few[/annotation] glaciers left in the park. All the blog posts I read

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... they did, and so I recounted my experiences learning how to cook and bake, and gardening as a child, and why I loved both and how they’d shaped me

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... pressure, I began to ideate. I considered teaching “how to make ... Hobbiton, Harry Potter entering Diagon Alley. I would have descended into

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  ). I would recommend sending us a note to this email address in mid ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the ... about the MIT workload. I'm sure I could get it done, but would it be at ... academics like I am. thus, i don't really think I will fit in to a 'nerd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  interested in the math side of things, how physical systems make order. But I ... . How in the world did you both go from doing engineering at MIT to ... would have these models I designed on the computer laying around my desk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  ." How embarrassing. Anyway, I spent about an hour more taking notes in ... Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid ... how quickly my essay came together after I put all the chunks up there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  runs in high school and thinking about what I would blog. I don ... in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... trees. One year ago I was in Venice, fairly certain this virus everyone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  models in hand. I’m walking around today too. In Cambridge. With a backpack ... past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from ... inexhaustible variety of life). Floating in Nostalgia   I honestly can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in ... long time. I cant exactly remember the number of hours as the'd go in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  the field is completely different. I might have been in over my head ... England, where I learned to work with people from a different culture and in ... GEL to teach me the things I never would have learned at MIT otherwise

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  really like bio - in a slightly different version of this universe, I would ... about how awesome my classes are and how excited I am to be in them :) ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in ... around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order ... . “Hey, how old are you?” “Depends on who’s asking.” “I’m asking!” “Well

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by that token, you can tell that I'm certainly not new here anymore. (In ... ; I had an awesome, well-thought-out plan, and look how that turned out

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go ... me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I ... communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006