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• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  prefers not to be on a hazardous rolling strip of wood. That's what you ... , and it works really well because there’s these bricks that jut out of ... towards the back of the board so that it would stabilize and not move any

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  **much harder than I thought it would be. I'm not sure if this is a common ... lot better prepared to be a working adult in a software or a research position. I have learned a lot about how to do work, how to use different

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  teachers said"]trap[/annotation] we had started breaking, and I was not sure ... . After a late night of work, the trapeze is finally flight-ready!   ... much work. Sort of like trapeze itself, before I dropped it. I learned

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  ="attachment_48405" align="alignnone" width="483"] At last week’s LLAB, we worked as a ... like pilot have longer commitments). However, if you are not on an ROTC ... sessions seem to work for me!  [Friday 7-8 am] Physical Training (PT): same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  and approaching the new year smarter, not harder, I'm still hosed. I ... work. To kick off Thanksgiving week, I had all-you-can-eat shabu ... roommate instead. The rest of the week I became potato.  I'm not really sure

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  gender inequality in their careers. Grace Hopper certainly did not ... ability to juggle family life with an incredible work life, so it was really ... of interest, not because I need to fill out my prerequisite sheet. This

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  meal plan or not. However, regardless of the price, I signed up for the ... stability of always having a meal ready, every day, no work required. There is ... real when eating involves work. However, the constant availability is a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  to learn X-Ray vision. Why not? And as I worked through my engineering ... , Anshul and I are both working on companies, he in India on an education ... see not just the layers of structures or computer science frameworks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  freshman year I had actually lofted my desk so I could sit on my bed and work ... up the supports, as well as how high you want the bed to be. Not to ... sections: A bathroom (Simmons gives you one-- do not try to build this! The

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  . As soon as he started speaking, I knew I had to work him into a blog ... talked about. Most lecturers come to RSI to talk about their work and their ... engineers..." But I'm definitely a mathematician, not an engineer: the last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  , working on an application that eventually quadrupled the sampling rate for ... square with only a few hours of daylight left which I hoped not to spend in ... . I heard the world come together -- not just through broadcast media

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  that high above my head. Yeah, I know, I should work out. This past week ... taught me not to put faith in the widespread claim that brown people don ... summer interns. I’m not sure if any of us will though, considering that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  *snively will be mad I beat him at posting this* *not anymore, curse ... gave us an interesting (but probably secret) problem to work out. It was ... not mine) via Bump for the iPhone. (super cool app, we followed up with

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  ability to make reasonable judgments, however. So, whether or not you're considering MIT (if not, you might be on the wrong website), here's my advice ... difficulty that requires you to reach out and work with your classmates, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  encourages students to form teams and work on developing technologies which ... in my day...ahem), Solar Car team, Rocket Team, and others. Not only ... Edgerton's collegues happened to drop by to say hi. I am so not kidding. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  impossible not to notice the tremendous amount of resources that MIT is pouring ... our professor, Amy Smith, reminds us of as we work on our projects is ... rather a global issue that affects people not very different from ourselves

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  “sitting in the basement with glasses on in the dark,” and she would not know ... was not true anymore). Asia explored the different corners of campus ... , WISE allowed her to experience MIT through the lens of a minority and not

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  confidential……….SO i’ll apply early admission bc why the hell not!!"]here was ... sharing that part of me felt forbidden, unsacred. not to mention, it wasn ... . i would learn to love science for science’s sake, not because i needed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  related to honing our team work and resourcefulness skills. (Since this ... lounge where we were working, and our intuitions (which, admittedly ... often than not, less than perfect can more than good enough. There will

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  week when my supervisor at the Oakland clinic I worked at introduced me ... work (he went on to UCSF after MIT and is now a practicing cardiologist ... you are an UROP student working in a lab and you discover this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009