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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  is about BOTH work and fun. Not just work! Sooo - on Friday night ... but work. These admissions blogs (+ my CPW experience) helped change

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  out how to make my Guitar Hero guitar work as a MIDI controller, just ... emailed my old student account asking if I'd ever gotten it working. The entire project had literally escaped my memory, but thankfully, not You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  the more common questions: Is there a nanotechnology major at MIT? Not ... Instrumentation Lab, which Melis '08 worked in as an undergrad, is also involved in some ... biophysics, works with nanoscale phenomena regularly. Thanks to the magic of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each ... before putting their work to the test. Keeping their eyes on the grand ... the show today in the largest lecture hall in the Stata Center. Not only

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  think it worked out to around $4.50 per person, which is a steal ... Charles River, just adjacent to East Campus. Now, I'm not much of a swimmer ... you Cam's LED project. He worked on this thing for like two weeks

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  some privacy issues, but I simply choose not to think about it too hard ... sleep deprivation and procrastination. I stayed up late to do my work, got ... to work since I'd stayed up late, vibed for a few hours, then had to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on ... people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by ... four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to ... to me was: What do you want to work on during junior year? Junior Year ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the

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

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  compared our summer experiences and found fellow GELs working in our area. About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  Hello again, you beautiful goobers. I guess this is not really so ... all about my life not that long ago. In fact, the time between my last post and this one is really not that much longer than the time between my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  Transportation Planning”. Not to be dramatic or anything, but this class changed ... later. For perhaps shaking reasons involving not wanting to move to ... decided to turn the year into a working adventure. I found an internship in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  I figured that everything would work itself out. This was not to be ... Con Vice President, a job involving lots of organizing and working with ... just not quite as exciting as my other two classes on computer systems

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  Killian Court under the sun, blogging about MIT (with not a care in the ... you're dead set on having a desktop and wouldn't work with anything less ... discourage purchasing a Macbook air at this point. It's VERY expensive and not

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  how the particles are not entirely working correctly, since they ... .837 Computer Graphics, the class we had been slowly working up towards for our ... for speed, and Taichi's syntactical nuances. This part was not too bad

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  has graduated and is working in Wisconsin, Izzy has graduated and is working in California, Jude has graduated and is visiting Norway, Chris H ... is working in New York, Gilbert dropped out and is working in New York

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  was not made for walking >:( i'm used to walking almost everywhere in ... most of the skyline, not some scraggly palm trees on the side of the road ... is so lovely. i wish everywhere was like this. it's not too hot yet and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  , punting is not an option.   --   Last week, I worked 75 hours -- which, well, is not something to be proud of.  As my friend Steph C. '15 ... that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  two weeks. Our work is not graded, so there's not too much pressure to ... program. They talked about how they didn't have as much weekly work (we have ... deathly combination of classes to prepare for my semester abroad. The work

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  not sleep"? not-urnal?) creatures known as grad students never stop working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the ... you may or may not have noticed, I've been absent from these blogs for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... will not, however, be leaving MIT. I will instead be moving a few ... time while continuing to work in the office. But for a variety of reasons

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012