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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  particularly upset because she was the first one “to make it out”, and put a lot ... students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these activities very sadly could not come to full fruition. But as a last ditch

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  (I was born in Atlanta). Lineart It was weird to do color first and ... . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... hold your phone up to some of the paintings, they'll come alive with AR

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  morning: Although we seem to be interconnected in almost every way ... seems like I haven't had the time this semester to sit and think about the relationship we've weaved, but now that I am free, it all comes rushing to me

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  people go through rough times and directing students to the proper resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need ... meant to be an open discussion with administration about mental health

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  and want to help guide them through their first year. We can provide a ... . This is my first year doing it - I got to meet my 23 advisees today, and ... seems like a good time to tell you about two programs that I'm involved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  adventures and exciting things to show you. Starting now. As my first ... frequents these blogs! * The word "prospective" doesn't distribute to parents ... until they at least hit preschool first. Or, better yet, high school

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  't work that way. From the first question, you have to ask two more, and ... yellow ink to make orange, instead of using red and yellow dots. Our first ... [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to make it to these mandatory training meetings which conflicted with field

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006