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• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  ="the last day students can add a class to their schedule without a fee ... Calendar and instead choose to spend an hour every semester making a silly ... This class is a lab class, and a direct successor to 1.050: Solid

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  my annual pilgrimage to Cambridge for the MIT Mystery Hunt, a puzzle competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to solve over a hundred puzzles and put the answers together to find a coin

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to ... are admits. Earlier today, I was working with a colleague to clean and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into ... November night. One was to be the first security engineer at a small company ... duties (I had no idea what could be more important). The other was to join

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  the importance of a program's logistics. Back in high school, I used to ... a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards, and then all of the cards go to a discard pile. You add When the discard

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and ... incredibly difficult for me to complete my work.” Then I’d solve a problem or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  lacking - communication. I've been working on a project to collect and ... into a more in depth article or brochure to hand out to MedLinks as the ... Links program to a wide variety of people - undergraduates, graduate students

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  MIT performance groups give students the opportunity to buy a serenade ... sitting in class my freshman year, listening to a (differential equations ... -male a capella group, on their way from one serenade to another. But some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something I have to rebuild. I was a pretty lonely high schooler. I didn

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  : Yes, right there, in all of his British glory.You can also take a bus to ... to eat. Into Asian cuisine? There's a pan-Asian restaurant, Island ... court (with everything from sushi to Sbarros), a nearby Legal Sea Foods

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize ... rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to ... -2 years. A pal gruffly rejected my hug; it later comes to pass they do not

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense ... bit of butter. With this in mind, I set out to find a tortilleria or in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our ... that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow me to explain. In a selective, competitive, holistic, merit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... taking us around the machine shop and giving a boring explanation on how to use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ... to be above average. So one of the most important things you'll learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my ... heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of ... to explore a new area and took a class simply titled “Urban

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am a writer. I seem to enter this phase every time an important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  to this area, though you can die instantly from such an injury. On a ... ." Professor Blanco is looking for some students to build a full ... that could disappear with the push of a button. Lear came to Prof. Blanco

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  Longfellow bridge was evacuated. A patrol boat crisscrossed from one bank to ... ." The fireworks started, finally, to cheers from the crowd and a rumbling ... . Since it’s far behind me, I’m now going to share a big secret about my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... limitations to the English language, and more importantly, there are limitations ... summaries at three a.m., since I am much too soft-hearted to watch horror for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022