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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun ... 2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... , and since flights were also relatively cheap,  for spring break my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  made a Kahoot with two truths and a lie for the freshmen (and some ... though—you can't live there for a good while, and neither can we. but ... Saturday and Monday. The first was a Zoom event with rooms representing each

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  snapped a picture with Shaye Storm, the Master of Ceremonies for BOTB ... at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special ... favorite '09 prefrosh and now he's a full-blown MIT student, workin' the CPW

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  with current MIT students in a casual environment and discuss how MIT ... opportunity to explore a diverse number of science, math, and engineering fields ... , and college in general. This year the date is set for Saturday, October

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  with a propellor hat fashion resurgence and an infamous tenure as East ... ’s courses and majors and lays it out in a beautiful pastel graph that ... . CourseRoad is a wonderful tool because it lets you toy with alternate

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority, but everyone who goes to MIT is a person, and people need sleep, and ... super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• 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…

  

  and he worked with them for about 9 hours (!) to create a design that ... ." Professor Blanco is looking for some students to build a full ... counterparts. In the experiment, bees and flies were trapped in a bottle with a

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

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  and set aside for a specific purpose, a specific event. Filling my ... the rest of his team. And we talk, for a bit. But he is soon swept up by ... . Walk a little bit and there are two small playgrounds, with plastic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  adventure here at MIT.  Looking back at it all now, a lot has happened in the ... and pineapple pizza from Dominos. Or a small mango slush from Kung Fu Tea. Or a pineapple frozen yogurt with white chocolate chips on the top

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means ... Boathouse for the past four years.  And this means that clothes just piled up ... a laundry loop and get them back and continue the cycle.  So when I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  my old Baker House housemate, who was a Sequence Supervisor for special ... digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a Technical Director on the forthcoming film Cars. Both my ILM friend and my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull ... , engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross racing car and then ... asked to design a prototype car for the nonprofessional weekend autocross

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  passion for teaching, and even learned a thing or two about brains, all ... Friday's deadline and surveying everyone and their grandmother for an ... hours? Four? Should I just leave and get a sandwich now?) I still don

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  first day of lab and I'm a bit nervous. 2.007 is well known for its chaos ... high." For several days I iterate and iterate on a design (nicknamed ... final design; I also lower my entire chassis and use a 3D printed fixture

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  to live in a house with a yard, and utilities, and your own kitchen ... interning with Kittelson & Associates. Kittelson is a transportation planning and engineering consulting firm based out of Portland, OR, but with

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as ... wanted to get involved with research and being a teaching assistant early ... crepes and Chinatown would make for such a good mix, but the Kit-Kats, ice

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  come. I chatted with some friends and hung out waiting for the show to ... am!" I settled down and waited for the show to start. Since Melis is a ... of Friday and all of Saturday completely off. Yes, that screws me for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ’s rush 3) The newspaper article for the OpenMind::OpenArt Project! 4) A ... during opening night • Two film canisters filled with clay • And a sphere ... -random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  ran the station (who incidentally looked and sounded a LOT like Quincy ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the ... , a big organization put together by the UN based around water and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Southern ... : brownmityale.org These meetings will be a great opportunity for high school ... . Each school will talk a little about what makes it unique, and will also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009