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• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  hike Mt. Washington, and leave Boston for a weekend. I want to stay up ... and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the Charles, I became a blogger, and I started and completed Unified Engineering

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Science graduate and was looking for a Mechanical Engineering student to ... cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  involve your name. Some common (and excellent) username structures for a ... be between 3 and 8 characters. Avoid numbers and underscores. You are ... nicknames of a sort for people, so consider whether you'd be comfortable being

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  ended up building a 3-D twister game, some huge speakers, a hammock for ... glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own ... courtyard of East Campus, straight off the T from the airport, and saw a half

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  started and ended with the Net Price Calculator (a nice tool to remind you ... and ways to look at my credentials with hope; my counselor, who was new ... Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . Favorite movies: Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland and Philadelphia Story with Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart. Favorite ... (with Mashed Potatoes as a very close second) Favorite cartoon characters

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  and its surrounding forest into a state reservation, complete with ... myself, and came away with a clarity of focus that I lacked when I stumbled ... working for a company necessarily comes with a set of constraints on your

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  ." - Zac F. "Many trenches get a belt tied around the waist, and there looks ... what shoes to wear for summer. And no, it wasn't some peer-pressure thing ... picked out a coat for me. It was beige, but like tasteful beige. It had a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... top choices with notes of praise and hints of acceptance letters and ... summarize the applications over the course of a number of weeks, and we don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  , because it's cheaper and healthier... also, I live in a dorm with no dining ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until ... because I was in lab until 7 tonight -- yes, on a Friday night -- and that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  old 3 Doors Down albums and I really like this song. Which is why it has ... it an honor. And unlike in high school, where there are a lot of other ... you up and remind you to study for the big physics exam next Wednesday

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  and providing us with donut holes. Loved that class -- Aden's taking a ... Mass Ave and Main Street) at 4:30 for a "blogger outing". Believe it or ... I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  " on a heater, and let it heat up for 20 minutes while the a computer recorded the temperature. Sure, that sounds pretty easy for a lab experiment ... do a "Web Lab" for 10.302: Transport Processes. What that means is we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  was 3 years old. I’ve lived in Georgia for practically my whole life ... science. Perhaps it had to do with the fact that my dad was an engineer and my mom was a biochemist. Perhaps it had to do with all that tinkering I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of ... together and it’s just too much, all at once. Not only am I keeping up with ... scholarships and internships. All this in the less-than-half-a-square-mile area

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  , and take action to fix it. Nobody will fault you for coming forward with ... took a physics class in high school but it was more hands on and not AP ... day of 8.01 was quite fun, I enjoyed it, but we took a pretest and I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  's the culmination of a lot of work for us, and even more for you. I hope ... housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room ... another one, and a monstera and a fiddle leaf fig and bamboo and some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  gave me a quizzical look when I came home for Christmas break freshman ... me for falling in love with theater at MIT? And the more I got involved ... even juggle fire and do tricks with a whip. It opened up a whole new

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  freshmen that’s inspiring and a little nostalgic. I didn’t come to MIT with ... catching up lol. I’ve been intimated by hackathons for a while now, and going ... and challenges, just a little shocked at how much it actually hurts.  I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  your application essay for MIT should probably use a little more varied ... 's Degree, and become a teacher. I'll go to Penn State. I hope to have an "A ... , and buy a normal, two-story house. I will be humble. Everybody says they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005