Search

Search Results

• 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 / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would determine whether it belongs to a language or not. Formally, we will create ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... mentor, Steve Little, to no avail. That is, until one day when he changed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity ... challenge was to visit an onsen together, which is basically just a giant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three ... to blog next. Sometimes it's just a quick update and everyone is like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking ... writing seminar with a focus on re-telling fairy tales. Want to cross ... .  also, you tend to find people at Harvard who have chosen to dedicate a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of ... IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole, with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it ... . In other words, if we feel that a mid-year report is needed to make a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start ... This summer at nerd camp, I heard about a band called The Pipettes. I ... -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  because she's a cockapoo. That's not to say Butterstick doesn't stay busy ... for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of ... a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to ... semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  . But actually, to our surprise, having a “plan” and a “major” and a ... animation classes. BUT *excited inhale to prepare for a long run-on sentence ... want to cross-register and begin the process just a few days before

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... innovation and the future. Certainly it isn't a bad thing to have respect for ... , so unlike at MIT, there isn't a constant pressure to work on psets. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  ) or which have never come close to profitability (doordash loses a few ... because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don ... calling to settle a bet between me and my stepdaughter. We wanted to know if ... this. I'm still working on the Ring Premiere entry, but a friend

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my top two choice schools!!! Needless to say, I did a happy dance. Still ... thirty to forty people a year. So that's a lot less than what MIT accepts

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  BG High Grad Gets Full Ride to MIT Amy Bingham / WBKO A former Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... math, and now it's paying off. He's preparing to leave for Boston on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, this is a lab class where we learn ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  will make me more accessible as a blogger and give me a way to post even ... -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a ... a box (poor tweets). You might not be able to see them in all browsers

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012