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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper ... takes a VERY long time... and our last part was going to be finished ... they had into creating a toy that they would be proud to call their own

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away ... certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... to work with other people. Choosing a dorm that fits you is also

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  up an important invariant in the game, which is that there is a single ... 't participate in it myself. it's a lot more fun to be a player, though. :) the ... 've decided to keep a live journal of the game on the blogs that i'll update

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  . I know it's easier to talk about liking a class when it's over, but ... that you only really understand something if you can explain it to a five ... Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  you give yourself the opportunity to change your mind, and be led in a ... roadmap. You all have brilliant minds. You are going to do big important ... to tell us how you handled a situation in which things did not go

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... live with a large number of friends, though instead of a dorm with 18-to ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact ... a student didn't respond to an authority/higher-up we would be ruined ... couple times before winter break to discuss what a project could look like

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... name and I was too lazy/uncreative to think up a new one. It made a lot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... didn’t want to wake. Megabus, for leaving promptly at 3 am, minus a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high a point i could stand on to watch the sunset. i ended up walking to, i ... my hunger. stand up every once in a while. remember to blink, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of ... a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to ... semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  ’ll just go on a walk. I think it’s important to use something other than ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  . It’s important not to drink coffee too regularly. When there’s a less ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... I was a small child. I’ve now (presumably) grown out of it, to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... important I know but still"]about academic integrity[/annotation], and a ... feels like) the first three days of school. [annotation note="to repeat a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  my gender. His film “Other” is about a very important topic for a lot ... great place to work and be a student. 1. MIT is very diverse -with no ... choose to self-identify with any of a number of questions, they would like

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  100 categories. We used these examples to train a neural network that, given a scene image, attempted to guess the corresponding category. Our ... to work on something that would tie into our research, which, unlike a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  since Simmons opened in 2002. In addition to a slew of Simmons residents ... required me to do a lot of crazy things, including (but not limited to ... to say, it was completely ridiculous in a way that could only ever

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... jungles to enthusiasm for a very real internship - far away from home and ... mentor’s niece's colleague offered to rent me a bedroom. Everything was set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010