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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  shuttle, race a car, finance a project based on limited data in the face of ... consequences turn out. A good decision is based on how well you processed the ... excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic ... . One of those people was/is Christina Couch, a recent alumna of the Graduate Program in Science Writing; another was Caroline Mak '18, who had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  , it is instead extracting myself to a list of personal details, becoming ... living with other people in a dorm, the experience of being closely ... like to be a so-called "front-end engineer"? who knows? not me. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  in rotation. Is the decision of what to wear that much of a burden to ... writing class, and a thesis prep class. “I understand the ‘buffet’ is ... being a student whose sole responsibility is to learn. To find answers to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  today following a brutal hazing incident in which one robot remains ... 13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a ... ,000 times, and is currently in critical condition in the laboratory

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not ... companies I was interested in. A job interview the next day and my career fair

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge ... halls. Google pulled a very EC stunt in setting up a roller coaster inside

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... ) There is a Maker Portfolio option? Really? A1) YES! Check out the ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  . The product we built in 2.009 is a powered respiratory system that could ... grade, everyone in my grade took a mandatory woodworking class. Even ... Madrid, Spain in a computational neuroscience lab. And while I had chosen

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  actually is, and we managed to make a functional one in two days! Cheers to ... ’s a cannoli?” in a fast-paced conversation is a lot harder than it seems ... It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... learn that there is a life-sized plastic cow in the Stata center. The tour ... MIT is like. *In a safe, police-approved way. The plastic cow, for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  what happens after your laptop dies at MIT. I feel like this is almost a ... + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a ... pine (to check email), zephyr (to IM, once in a blue moon), tellme combo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  now than it is during the actual term. Which is a very good thing, in my ... sterile environment (that is, a chemical hood). In addition to mastering ... . The first major step in making a hydrogel is weighing out all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where ... feeling of being trapped in the Bubble is tangible in my failure to take ... leave my floor?? (okay, my floor is amazing but i, a girl from a city 45

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and ... space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera ... free stuff, I spent time cooking a gourmet French dinner at New House ... impressive; there are always people running in Boston. Anyway, that's a quick

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  of the free wireless service (not available in rooms, unfortunately). A ... of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... stopped a stewardess, who had "YOLO" written on the back of her notepad. "Oh

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  a bit in laser cutting already, and the point of it is to minimize the ... ="things you'd find in a typical machine shop"]shop tools,[/annotation] like CNC ... 'd present at the end of May in a big Open House that anyone could attend

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  ’m working in the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, which is incubating a new graduate ... there is a non-physical world. It’s an extension of a 24.00 Problems in ... double check myself every time I speak in this class. It’s a new experience

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  localization – how a robot can figure out where it is in when you place it ... undergraduates. The EECS department is the best in the country and has pioneered ... , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007