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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  courses within the major? Harrison replied: In response to Sam 2's first ... efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts ... shops I haven't shown you photos of. Up first: the Lab for Manufacturing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... grandfather’s grave.    When I came to MIT, the repertoire of places I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  , who first figured out how to build such a sculpture out of business ... friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be ... —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... . Write introduction to 10.28 advanced technical review for Monday 7. Work 4 ... compositions for Monday 11. Laundry, laundry, laundry 12. Go to New York and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  artist was Cordae, and I went to Springfest for the first time. Cordae ... th of July fireworks ✅ During my first summer here, I went to watch the ... task Go to an event advertised in the infinite corridor ✅ I’ve gone to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet ... slow -- first date places Athena cluster -- teach him/her about George ... to work" says Sam '07 Club Passim -- live music Grendel's Den -- the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten in their lives. 2. The system encourages first-term freshmen to have ... This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... least.) anyway, every day i'd wake up to a new message from someone ... have to begin treatment within a few days of symptom onset / a positive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  -word mess to make sense with what I am now working on. For the first few ... After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where ... velvet pillow. The trio proceeded to crown me as tsar. The witnesses

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

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  -nature to skim through these emails, glancing at the subject lines, letting ... began the semester by learning some basics: how to format comic scripts, what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a ... when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... observing: sketching, assembling a telescope, using a telescope and a map to ... up on the roof (using a telescope to find Comet Pan-STARRS as the sun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  a year since I've graduated and I'm happy to report that real life isn ... don't spend more money than you make and things tend to work out ... did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  Two years ago (wow time flies), I went to CPW, and I came away ... mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come, swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  “MIT engineers go to work for Harvard graduates.” This phrase is no ... interdisciplinary problem-solving, MIT is uniquely equipped, and obliged, to make a critical difference: to do the analysis, to create the innovations, to fuel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  ! I'm excited too! In fact, this is also my first CPW ever. I did not ... didn’t think I had been super committed to CPW activities, but I actually ... CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... swear you're never going to fly again. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured ... decided to make a super-retro 8bit blocky construction / run away from ... have infinite materials and no enemies and you just build ridiculous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010