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• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  it, but now that I've seen how impactful it is, I'm hooked. When I ... maintenance is required for something of such a huge scale, so the ways in which ... how huge the undertaking is—given how limited the materials Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  !) So what is a poetry slam, anyway? It's a 25 year old movement of spoken ... , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... next four years at MIT. This is a safe place where everyone has a story

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  pass is a pass! The Thanksgiving trip was only a week away at this point ... test as a sign that I needed much more practice, so I signed up for a few ... in Boston is MIT. The roads here are so much more chaotic, and there

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  to learn CAM. Manufacturing a yo-yo is fairly complicated. We ... . I thought about how much CAM and CNC had intimidated me once. Now my ... Let’s meet the CNC mill. This one is called HAAS. He’s proven useful

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... mundane; I give a summary of how the day went, jot down any thoughts or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  't have to explain to all the postdocs what a "blog" is -- but I forgot the ... this figure in Paint. How rude of you to suggest that I did. This is ... approximately a majillion proteins in spines, and each person in my lab is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how ... beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog ... yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the ... Boston is supposed to be a place of good seafood. Do not go here for good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  Educational Counselor, a recent graduate who is currently enjoying sunny ... admissions committee. A college interview is an experience. Remember that the ... from a transcript or very basic info -- and the interviewer is human too

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  persona I put forward on the blogs is, well, just that. A persona. Do I exaggerate myself too much on the blogs? Is this my real self or is it someone I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below ... Hampshire and Central Massachusetts. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  left (or somewhere nearby) is a map of the MBTA subway system. You ... each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of ... that train.   As in the bus, inside the train is a scrolling neon sign

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  while. And, sometimes, a distraction is all you need to rediscover a sense ... weather is always a song from a different indie band. Basically, it’s clever ... There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  languages all around the world. How many? Enough to populate a map like this ... simultaneously." The hope is that by analyzing a lot of languages, we'll see ... how pidgins and Creole languages form. On a completely different day

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  . Getting a bicycle is not absolutely necessary, but I would recommend it if ... connect to my laptop, which is much easier on my eyes. However, running programs like Matlab and Solidworks is absolutely painful on a laptop, so I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  appreciate how much effort goes into even a seemingly simple thing like ... (Creating Digital Learning Materials for Biology) This course is a student ... and how to shape our own projects. After a couple weeks of research, we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU ... ? *This statement is not true if your summer assignment is to a living group

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... -renovation. so two years is a lot relative to how undergraduate culture propagates ... . it's unclear how much of this is due to the actual news though

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some ... MIT will be contacted directly about how to access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist that did not rank MIT, you can
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  occasions When I tabulated this list for myself, I kept a record of how much ... /dinner: a friend and I were texting about the abundant free food, and how they ... terrible at taking food pics, which is a tragedy. The food this week was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022