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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the ... Morrison, listened to a new song, and looked over my last assignment for ... and forth in the woodshop. Arabic music is playing. I have come to an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... have been working very hard, and dealt well with setbacks. There was an ... proudly sent out some photos of their robot without giving any context for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  looking for 4 incoming freshmen to compliment our contingent of talented ... pretty high. The exception will be for video. We're looking to add video ... for certain that we will only hire someone with an active blog, we will

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  see this weird in-between age bracket that is usually absent from campus. Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all have name tags, proudly displaying their names. Two, they usually come in

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling arises when looking at something human-like. This is why humanoid robots ... nonhuman features. The nonhuman movement of an android and its human

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of ... buildings are always open. You can easily find an open classroom for students ... contact the lab.  For example, I got my current UROP (in Langer Lab at the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  was in Texas and Audrey in California. As for the other “interesting ... and created something [annotation note="Audrey '24: psst look out for ... in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  how this year looks in a few weeks. The waitlist committee has been ... For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  fields. and i love it   it’s quaint tucked away in an abundance of ... an ice cream shop together when i passed them, with ice cream in one ... this summer, i’m living in a small, cozy house out in the medieval

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... challenge was an awesome idea for me. I only have classes on Wednesdays and ... invincible for two weeks in October. I was glowing. My mood took the most

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  old. No one looked like an undergraduate. I dismissed all three of ... clouded with pain. What. Body sculpt? As in, trying to make your body look ... My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  them looked something like this. In the week or so leading up to the ... underwhelming. It might’ve been because I allotted 45 minutes to an hour for ... pretty well. I collapsed in bed at midnight (super early for me) completely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who ... stare at my phone for an hour to have a conversation with a friend. Beyond ... or for worse, the same person I was in high school. But also, how could

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  -level overview this time. steven babysits me for an hour, but i finally make my ... interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light ... there could be an exoplanet in that area. [caption id="attachment_102062 ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  that one? Here's another: "Two muffins are sitting in an oven. One muffin ... ) In conclusion, thanks to all of the prefrosh who I met for: -making me ... read this blog by spreading the word that UROP stands for Undergraduate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  eyes closed for this part so I didn't really see it in action, but the ... 've already been watching presentations for over an hour, you're super hungry ... on this team had to lay in a freezing pool for hours in order to test

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  bagels smothered in cream cheese. Also, I had caviar for brunch. This is now on my resume, in case you were wondering. For her main course ... This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... pass, in order for you to begin to submit your version. At school, if my ... ’s working on conversation design for the Google Home. It’s in this new field

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  above me won 1st place for an individual game, he was removed from the ... Field. In the next section, I talk about how this actually worked out for ... . What would an aerial view of the game have looked like? On the map below

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020