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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  , so that was probably my first introduction to the area. In the future ... ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to ... major. I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted to approach this, but

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  to Preston’s note. * * * Much of First Light takes place at Caltech ... spent the first semester of senior year frantically trying to make plans ... ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  you do it before entering your first semester, you just have to take an ... blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  the best! And shoutout to you too for reading my first blog post! I've had an amazing first few weeks here at MIT, and I can't wait to share it ... Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see, this immediately ties into how I'm going to feed myself for the next

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  amazing first two years at MIT, I decided to spend my junior year abroad at ... food and a thing you do with food. You'll probably never need to pronounce my last name. I only know one other person with the same first name

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  sitting ahead of me. First order of business: back to bed. ... I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... first snow day I have had in years. The view from my window Back home

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we ... sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know well, to see who might be interested. I found five who would be around

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  is the first step in bringing colleges together to be more thoughtful ... students.” I was very pleased to endorse the report, along with more than ... think they need to do to be strong applicants, and what they actually need

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... cutting-edge fourth industrial revolution technology to run through walls ... instruments are fragile and expensive). That’s why we had our first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  , [annotation note="also known as the first quarter, gasp"]halfway through the first semester:[/annotation] I am too [annotation note="the (usually temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... modern, enclosing yet invisible, glass was first created in Mesopotamia and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  ="at least at first?"]like it.[/annotation] So, what matters to you? Is it ... is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... ="for legal reason i have to say stealing and plagiarism is bad"]blame me though

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation ... due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real ... ), that was supposed to bring a quarter inch of ice. But I made it here

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  I took my first final today: 8.022, Electricity & Magnetism with ... knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this.) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  rehabilitation-related engineering, but she doesn't know if she first wants to work ... Parents always eagerly anticipate their child's first steps and ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  coordinating the floorplans. They tend to be named by the first hackers who find ... skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  compared to the $500 signed first edition. The 500-fold increase is worth it ... ) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... books from as early as the 1400s to as recent as the 1980s, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM tomorrow morning?" I told him I had to teach recitation, so I wouldn't be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  good at faking sick to your boss. I think that first-term freshmen ... attributable to the cheerleading squad.) I spent the first few weeks of the ... It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006