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• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  note="and having a few 2026s ask me what this team does"]past two years ... talking so much about something that’s so secret"]the Secret Team mythos ... commit an [annotation note="'it’s not crime if it involves bunnies wearing

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  Institute. It’s also an incredibly fancy event that expects people to peel off ... from Van’s Discount Fabrics in Chinatown for a sturdier lining. Always ... standard units, I appreciated Micarah’s instructions to cut pieces in “the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  boyfriends, rush to qualify their partners with “he’s really aware” or “I’m his first Asian girlfriend” or some other statement meant to say: he’s not one ... . Some say that, after all, we rarely know the details of someone else’s

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ... Learning. It’s one of the largest classes here, with an enrollment of around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  already looked at this, but if you haven’t: here’s the complete list of REX ... other dorms are running, but I can talk at length about East Campus’s ... prefrosh. This year, we’re building a fort and an arch bridge, and it’s going

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... , we get formal instruction!!! Besides the level of excitement, there’s ... through “oh no’s” and “ahhs” and hope the registrar will help you fix the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  particular because I was incredibly homesick. It’s not that I struggled to make ... , Joel G. ‘18, Alexa J. '20, and Kevin S. '19. I think one of the things ... it’s drowning in work, needing a calculator for an exam in the next 10

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  overflowed its buffer in memory. But without further ado or apologies, let’s ... me anything, it’s that everything can be a verb), since there was a ... . It’s going to be difficult to put this in perspective, so bear with me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  quarter, I took Women’s Weightlifting. Which was awesome. Before starting ... , it’s really satisfying noticing that I can lift more weight now than I ... weight machines, plus a lot of the dorms have their own weight rooms. It’s

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  high school was just pretty hard. I had 6 or 7 B’s on my transcript ... school taught me how to fail. All those B’s (okay, B’s are really not that ... fact, I know a transfer student at MIT who did exactly that, and now he’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally ... , although I wouldn’t recommend this strategy on exams. Anyways, let’s move on ... platform, which is MIT’s online learning environment, built on edX. Many

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... students, sometimes it’s “I Have Truly Found Paradise.” Sometimes, it’s “I ... January. It’s terrifying, yes, but I know that by Thanksgiving I will know

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  ). Section leaders are the three students in their second year of GEL ("GEL 2's ... brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... . Here’s what we came up with (keep in mind that I’m condensing about 2

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  the next bus stop. “There’s our bus.” “You’re kidding me.” “Nope.” It ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the ... home my bother achieved every child’s greatest fantasy. After our second

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... ; It's November 1. MIT Early Action applicants are wondering, what's next? And Regular Action applicants may be now starting their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  WebcastHere is the White House Press Release: BACKGROUND ON THE PRESIDENT’S ... MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Since his arrival at MIT ... consumes 8 percent of all U.S. energy and 22 percent of U.S. electricity. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously ... of liking it. It’s like dress up. Only… with… your life. And this is ... Developing Countries,” which is incredible. I’m currently part of a team that’s

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  . The initial discovery of the science behind the gecko’s stickiness ... happened to come across the Nature paper on a friend’s desk. He decided to ... gecko’s foot using a strong, water-resistant, flexible, and biodegradable

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite ... friend’s at (and soon to be at) MIT who I already miss. Since this ... ’s head injury I went to the CSAIL presentation, 6.02 class, and EECS

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a ... ! By this time my standards were pretty high. Let’s face it, I’d gotten a ... table my name and he produced . . . a folder. Yay. Here’s what I learned

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008