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• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  -perfect meatballs to show for my work. I ended up with half of one at the end of the night, so I guess it was a jorb well done. A pox on Jeremy and Javier for ... or potato-bean soup for the Mafia potluck at NH4, and Sam's Mom settled

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... license and to shoot guns, I stayed for the instructor. Every week was

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  monkey and a butterfly garden. I watched the baby tamarin for about 15 ... and/or aerospace engineering (both Adam and I have sort of one ... spot for primates), and lingered in the butterfly garden's 100-degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began ... ; not only do you get free goodies like food and a tote bag, but you meet a lot of inspiring people and improve your scientific communication

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex ... Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop, and Charm School). Read on... (and if you like comics, or movies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  facilities, chatted at length with various employees, and I think I'll get a ... The month of August was pretty busy for me - a combination of work and preparation for the new term. Last week, for example, I day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and ... and got a feel for the warmth and camaraderie that permeated every ... Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  friendship would be a bit toxic and codependent <3 Needless to say, she’s my ... Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  compile a content library for every class with student data, problem sets ... and share their knowledge, and provides students with essential tools ... project-based 3.086 (Innovation and Commercialization) to the problem set

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  a thesis for my program, and the profs - from day 1 - tend to scare ... walking around with portable media devices looking for the stories of the ... for cultural organizations and is beta testing a publishing tool that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  - and the best part is that I can accompany it with a story from my summer ... ?" and "are there any Citizen Science programs to help look for pulsars ... with a few of them and discuss majoring in physics at MIT. I realize that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  .g. "what a function looks like”) and the psets require the students to, say ... SCIENCE LABORATORY Class Info and Benefits: 17.803, a required class for ... person and a prominent professor; despite this, she communicates with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  , Wellesley, Harvard, and beyond for the Ballroom Dance Camp, Day 2. "Look ... enthusiasm stays with you forever. To dance, you must find a balance within ... going on outside of classes and ballroom dancing. For example, slacklining

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  with stressful situations more calmly and clearly.  i am still a ... with yourself, peace will find a way into your life. it will define and ... then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a ... note="into finity but continuing for a while in the direction of the ... other sister confirmed that it was in fact a mosquito larva and that sure

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... downtown Denver thoroughly, and took a road trip with my friends to go

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  actually played with your feet), and preparation for the holiday season. I ... football game, and after we've digested a bit, we head outside for a family ... with you, and since 1970 they've staged a protest on Thanksgiving Day

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• 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…

  

  tell, this is a very expensive class for MIT to run and we're all really ... In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot about physical principles and how other people have applied them. A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  together with our team and develop a novel product to tackle antibiotic ... hilarious dinner with rowdy Americans, Brits, an Italian, and a Cypriot. I ... exchange with my academic advisor that went a little something like this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  experience by asking for more leadership opportunities and establishing a ... challenge me to take a step back and take a look at the whole summer and apply ... database, and fill in the gaps. The other intern and I had to come up with a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011