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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  (*cough* 8.01 *cough*) - not that I have anything against gyroscopes. They ... regarding any independent work I'm doing in the lab. One of my floormates now ... fantastic benefit to working in my lab because when I'm done with my work, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  parts in SolidWorks, import them into a program called "MasterCAM," and then load them onto the mills/lathes. Then the tool does all the work for ... mill. We designed our paper weights in SolidWorks first, the easiest way

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  and chairs, but they didn't look very comfortable. Lucky for me, I work ... 're reading right now) so I know about secret (not so secret) admissions secrets ... blankets, and not a lot of stereotypical MIT. 3) Thursday night. TONS of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  is all about working hard, finishing problem sets, writing code, curing ... misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to ... . Just maybe not the same way that anyone else parties. Of course, not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  . Of course not, I responded. You see, there's this program called MISTI ... , like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working ... excited as I was. Ok, maybe not. That would have been pretty hard. I left

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  ): "Laura?! The Laura? Awesome!" and not "ummmm... who?" So do me and yourself ... 're able to see the bigger picture and realize that it's not the end of the ... this will give you a little inspiration as you work on supplementing your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... will not cut it for today. It’s a pretty quick meal, and I run into a few ... :30 — I try watching the physics lecture again. Doesn’t work the second time

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  people can just enter these trivial prompts and then pass this work off on ... work, I wouldn’t mind—I’d be amused, more than anything else. Of course, this is only my reaction, and certainly other creatives might not feel

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... ?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to ... ?" I am sure these are a question everyone has seen at least once, if not

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let ... loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  decision, your hard work is not time wasted. The college application process ... 're relatively simple to find."]All my hard work,[/annotation] from early ... "Replace every instance of 'MIT' with 'UC'. That night, I had decided to not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  had not choked creativity. They had permitted it. Twice during the semester we presented our work in the form of a review. Each student ... , disassembled.   Anthony Kawecki (MIT, 2017) points to his work from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which both Robb Carr and Rhiannon Carr (not related) showed were probably ... , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a single, as I have all four years, and I fully understand the "not psyched

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in ... "usually fail." So I switched to 7.012 (which isn't as fun, because it's not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  that many of my favorites would not get admitted, and for all the work ... : your admissions decision does not in any way reflect your worth. A negative decision does not negate your abilities, accomplishments, and dreams

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many ... . it will feel like a race, it is not. Throughout my first year at MIT ... is not the entire class, those few people feel the most prominent. When

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  [/caption] As a mechanical engineering major, I had never worked close enough with ... [annotation note="an icon within the mechanical engineering department for not ... MAKE SURE YOU SAVE YOUR WORK PROPERLY!! Side story if you're interested

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  not do the same for its research? He saw it as an educational ... important work done in the 1970s concerning aflatoxin, had volunteered to ... high-profile work I had done for Amtrak. I am e-mailing you on the off

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007