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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  as a lifeguard. I'm not kidding.) But then today I was struck with ... chooses a few promising ideas and starts working frantically to get a model ... ) working on it, hoping to have the full, finished, working (!) prototype done

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  student insurance, I have not gone since last year, since there is little ... not to scream. It's not the drill - I have about as much tolerance for ... , I'm sure glad they're fixing all my teeth and not actually creating a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  somebody vomited gears into it, but it works, so we're not complaining. To ... . It would be him, me, and Dan '11. "Sure, why not?" I replied, and one ... by working with each other, being introduced to some material in class

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  properly, not come up with good ideas. i struggled working with the people in ... mixed together, regardless of experience. i got to work with new actors, but i also worked with lots of experienced ones too. every rehearsal

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  about them and how they worked. Senior year, I was In Charge: the clubs ... actual day-to-day workings. Sound familiar? There's nothing necessarily ... , because I worked a job all summer. Don't do this if you can avoid it, kids

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  remote graphic design work for the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. We did not ... opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of ... too hosed by classes. But as we approached this semester, not one but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  wiring: It's not my finest work, and I'm sure I'll redo it again in the ... warmer than usual. Not bad for campus, but unfortunate for those of us hoping to ski--there's not really snow anywhere in North America. But some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  another elaborate drawing like the one you were up all night doing, why not ... -type figure” and maybe not someone you want giving you advice. My 18-yr-old just ... myself from being such a mom and work on leaving the room. But I actually

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  the actual assignment, so I think I'm in the clear. NOT. Do your work ... were mean.) Figure out when you work best. I'm a morning person and have ... fell asleep at nine. So when I have a lot of work to do and don't feel

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay so many times that, by submission time, it did not even make sense ... college essay is personal. It’s not English class anymore. Let loose your ... plenty topics and stories you can choose. Most of them work. But there are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  MIT, I've worked as a UROP on two research projects. Freshman and sophomore year I worked in the Aerospace Controls Labratory (ACL) and currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous. Today I'm here to answer those questions! (Spoiler alert: we're not really ... , but I guess that's not saying much :P Some bloggers end up putting up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  ’m not yet, but working on it). i must adopt a bias towards action and be ... mandatory eg. working through the material for classes i’m not in or ideating ... nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  she works for this company was the people. Not only should we as interns ... York City" I AM DONE. Not only with my exams, but freshman year in ... to what I was going to do and I was fearful of not being able to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of ... shot. Here goes. Look, we're not saying you should drop or hide all of ... formal and informal studies, balance between work and play, balance between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  based on her thesis work. It had not been published yet, and I understood ... , I had worked in a scientific lab, so I knew that these mythical “grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  , you want to work at Disney, you’re not going to do it in Minneapolis ... film that you might not have worked on that really stands out to you ... met in grade school, and it was just not working, it wouldn’t work. We

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  note="please do not actually attempt at home"]Because you should ... date and I have not been able to bring myself to watch it but now I will ... worked vaguely in bioengineering and his research sounded cool. "Let me

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... tablet work a charm. The six tips were all textured differently to give you ... ’s just not as fun once you get a taste of digital art, and you realize that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  didn’t stop academically. I took online classes, and then I worked on ... go places to work online. That being said, it is doable. It is ... application season did not come from this large number of things to balance, but

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017