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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our ... of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the intersection of art and technology. CPW is something we, as a club, were really

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  experience is not a limiting factor. In particular, he tries to find students ... wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT ... their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  easily recorded than ever before. So here is a random assortment of photos ... ’re arranged in order. ( by the way, ‘random’ is a Python module that helps with ... , MEng '17, for a picnic. April Researching at the Media Lab is honestly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your Undergraduate Degree Audit looks like: This is a very lonely situation, because ... is right near the range*, so you put on a swimsuit and head on over

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... how hosed I am and a bunch of other stuff and you get a very unhappy

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  studies at Oxford. Matthew L. Gethers III, Waterbury [Connecticut], is a ... protein expression on host cell growth rate. He is a varsity fencer, an ... & Engineering. "It is a role that becomes Matt, because he is not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  lighter + lighter fluid, and a sleeping bag. This is where we spent the ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... ? These people couldn't pick a better place for that? My friend Spencer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] in the only way they know how: a group song. The last time FWACC ... senior who taught me how to prepare a turkey and run a kitchen for ... over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  A couple people have asked about suggestions for useful items with ... of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of ... shipping expense. Just bring enough stuff for a few days to hold you over

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  store as what they can't live without. Random is a cook-for-yourself dorm ... with 0 roommates. Random is mostly singles, with just a few doubles per ... thought that writing an interactive Buzzfeed-style quiz would be a fun way

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  is “a pioneer in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar ... comes at a difficult college-choosing time. I hope that a look at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the Middle East last fall with Professor Susan Slyomovics, who is just awesome. (I liked her so much that I took her class 21A.348: Photography and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  not been entirely solved. There is still much to be done to improve the ... Harvard. It was a wonderful course, with fascinating readings and ... articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  my schedule was a bit tricky is that I'm applying to the Course 2 ... .003 are standard Course 2 requirements.  2.086 is now a strict prerequisite ... apostrophe!"  You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  realize how lucky I am to be a blogger (apparently it will be the most ... I had a blast during CPW and I hope you all did too! Here's a rundown ... follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  when the next train is coming and how to offer an alten dame some help ... wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too ... -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  person in a room. explaining to a nine-year-old what an fmri is. seeing ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... like a grown up?" i've thought about this question on-and-off over the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  dining plan during college, knowing how to cook is still an essential life ... for a run. Even if the only running you usually do is away from your ... 's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... wife for this. I vowed never to watch this show, ever. But my wife's a ... , which turned out to be a complete LIE, but it's too late - I'm hooked

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  - Little COOP of Horrors Underneath the MIT COOP store is a basement that ... though the KerMIT is overall a benevolent figure, its mischievous nature sometimes makes it a tricky character to deal with. There is now a small group

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022