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• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  below first. If you can’t find an answer here, leave a comment or feel ... 250 word limit for a reason. You CANNOT use the FUN form to submit new ... the FUN form to tell us a joke. :) What if I submit by FUN form and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  philosophy and a lifelong process. It requires you to first of all find out who ... I'm going to confess something. A bit more than two years ago,  I ... well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  lifts to reveal a fascinating life. I have found my perfect match, my ... he resolved as a child. He will return soon to tackle the challenges of ... ’s like to love science and math, be curious about the world, and remain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a ... easy, once you find the right command. It took me about 30 minutes to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... note-taking. Midweek finds us gathering in a lounge and trudging through ... intro circuitry class, where we are given schematics and sent out to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  regenerating organisms with a certain gene turned off to see that they grew heads ... biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the ... healthy amount of skepticism; i don’t have time to do a detailed literature

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  sticker. A very simple introduction to both teams: Alabama: Called the ... are indoctrinated into a team before they're able to make a conscious ... who they learn to root for. One time in middle school gym, a girl told

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  MIT-related and that I wanted it to be pretty. I thought I’d find a ... , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine ... .  The class is structured as a workshop where the majority of the semester

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  , so its a great place to go to find random things. One person's trash is ... .001 (Mechanics and Materials), a class where I always longed to see the green check ... more of a spotlight at this school, since it's hard to find out when

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer ... to an MIT Quizbowl team practice at CPW and had a ton of fun, so I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC ... to help serve as a counselor for the week-long DiscoverEE FPOP. My ... , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  foundation on which to build better bad ideas. But there is always a lot going ... . They've done a lot to make our site speedy and stable; bring images ... students but anyone who might find their way to our website. I really want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  blog to show that there *isn't* a 'best way' to choose where to apply ... ’s a huge relief. Now I’m turning to American MechE programs, where I ... school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  . To be completely honest, I can’t see a future where that’s true for me ... ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  - make use of this chance to get a head-start on deciding where you want to ... 't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and ... you on campus. We get to find out which of you we'll be host

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand ... trying to run after spending three and a half months in one room. Then ... ’ function where you place a magnet inside your solution and the hot plate

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here ... wholesome. I would love to find that photo."]Take a selfie with tourists ... descend a staircase to find your preferred bathroom. Walk across Harvard

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  social circles and niches to find where I fit extracurricularly, but also a ... written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy ... laptop hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to it. (not really, but

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the ... created by the entire team every so often for you all to try, and then a ... this series of directions to follow to find the train home. START HERE

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005