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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  surprising, but I’m willing to bet that in that year off, you’ll learn more ... year of college.) In my case, I took two years off and arrived on campus ... student mindset so I could put in the kind of effort it takes to succeed in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  where some of the sisters live (for example, I still live in the dorm ... member: “No one in my family had been greek, so pretty much everything I ... joke (because in my mind, there was clearly no way I was going to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really ... rhymes with "hoop.") Sam: I don't know where we're going Getting lost on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  . In 2011, two weeks after my graduation, I traveled to Costa Rica where ... :)). Anyway, as you can tell from my post tittle, I wanna talk a little bit ... find three programs that allowed me to travel for 1-3 months and I can

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  'm optimistic. If you're the guy mentioned in this blog entry, I was so shocked ... something and let me know. I can introduce you to Mitra. ... . Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... $50 registration fee later I was enrolled in 6.270 for IAP. The ... ball for now. As you can see, robot A is in charge of scoring in the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  graduating), in the embedded webcast above.  On Wednesday night, I had the ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now ... (webcast embedded from commencement website. I'll return to this blog

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  DTYD in the Minecraft version of Porter Room, the room where it usually ... assure you... I told the people in the Minecraft Discord about our hype ... I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  -MIT organizations too. What will dorm life be like? I don't know where I'll fit in ... longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for ... telethon last year, his face fell and he plaintively said, "Anyone can go? I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing memorized, and I grew tired of seeing the same little letters in the same ... exactly as I did? Let me know Just below Because that's where Your comments

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  components that I was planning to use, but alas no. I can't find a suitable ... , I finally receive it in the mail! Because I want to get these boards ... ="90850" image2="90849" image3="90848" /] Rerouting traces in software When I turn

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  working on taking this invention into the clinic, where it can be used to ... reduce the time a patient spends in surgery. Additionally, it can be ... called Boston the “Academic Hollywood,” where stars in every field could be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  's where Stride comes in: it's a sleek, ergonomic, and automatic option that ... . Roger has a built-in microphone and earbuds so that you can communicate ... wheelchair that can fully deploy in under ten seconds. Burt, a power wheelchair

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in a hotel in Portland Oregon absolutely surrounded by prefrosh. Why am I ... and giving somebody my seat, but I'm in the middle of the last row and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in ... over the weekend, where you can visit one of MITOCs two New Hampshire ... gear, it should be no surprise that I'm thrilled to be back just in time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  because, in my music prof's words, "I can't tell you how many Sonatas in E ... gun safety. After Pistol, I booked it over to Harvard Square, where ... I could play with at my leisure. Can anyone PLEASE explain to me how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  nailed a back handspring first time since high school; I can flip ... schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to ... 've got all this writing momentum, I pulled up this particular work in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he ... was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7 ... welcome my first final review in 4.112 (Integrated Architecture Studio). I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , in a way, I was. Science isn't celebrated enough in our society, and I ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... ceremony is a black tie event; I was sporting my tux. It's a pretty swank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  and dying? I can hear my mom in the back of my head saying yes, of ... work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other ... contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018