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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . No matter how much of a challenge your target audience may be to reach ... ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the ... involved with things is a lot of fun and normally not mind

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  running around a lab in the dark chasing a loose bird.” When she is ... ! On a final note, she is getting a minor in French and loves the subject ... , has had a UROP in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department since

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  the weekend was, "How much of MIT Blogs is real? Why does it always look ... , you don't sound like a college professor in real life!" I'm sure now ... next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a ... the mechanism of these reactions. The idea is to extract how self ... write code that aggregates geometric elements in a defined space as if

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint ... Infinite Corridor is perhaps too aptly named... After finding the Wikipedia

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  power plant to build in a town while taking into account how the residents ... A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  , in a sense, they're both oversold—the truth, I think, is unsatisfying ... regret how I spent my undergrad, but rather that it is a modality of living ... seeking, a question to which there is no right answer except the one which

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... totally list that as a talent on your application). Number theory is fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney ... — the mitlwax community is truly unlike any other I have been a part of ... has played a central part in my experience here. It gave me the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  , "How much?" I said, "$25,000." This was back in 1964. He said: "Oh, no ... MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start, and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  -- the difference in total time between air and rail is only a couple of ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  . My phone, however, is a different story. The problem with the phone ... around because there is a line, or two, or maybe more which I keep coming ... a University of New Mexico Physics site, but I'm glad it is "Sonnet

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  a much larger problem. How to travel through time! Prof. Fisher: We ... feud with Stephen Colbert (resolved in a battle royale), a German disco light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  confers and also a place like MIT needs. because the rest of the world is in ... that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the ... things in our school’s history is something that’s not in the motto [of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  again. In summary, here is a concise blurb of what I have to say to you ... to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is ... , enjoy the writing. That makes it so much easier. Overall, senior life is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  and is able to be happy solely through a conscious effort to live in the ... that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... ’s advice is, but regardless, it begs the question - how many other glass

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  , which is very cool (and a bit scary)! Although there are still a few kinks ... numbering system (although using a large language model like Gemini is ... sniped me like that, but it made me wonder how much Gemini knows about MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  back at how much my life has changed in just twelve months. It has, by ... , sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit, bundled in three layers of pajamas resembling a plaid-colored icicle, on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  company is a really good fit for him personality-wise and in terms of his ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  become genuine. It is wayyyy to early in the morning to keep up a “oh hi there I don’t know you that well” façade. In addition, there is still a ... thing about finding a family in a fraternity is that having cool brothers

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015