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  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  engineering can help fund biomedical research. And there were several

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   “When I’m in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I’m in Palestine, I listen to the blues.” — Nida Sinnokrot, Palestine…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and Engineering which allows us to…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it’s become a bit of a brain dump of everything…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  Without a doubt, I think every student here can agree that problem sets take a significant portion of their time throughout the week. Here is my normal setup: I always…

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  This post has no central topic or theme. This will simply be a random ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 – Introduction to Software Engineering…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  It’s been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving, though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  warning: the post below is probably the cheesiest thing i have ever written. it is highly unedited and makes me feel both embarrassed and proud. i usually like to sculpt…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also observed students entering anything from 999*999 to sin(π/6)…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  .   It was October 29th, 2012. My research wasn’t going too great and ... free time, and I have a rewarding job doing research that is going to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a program that I’d introduced here). The eight Youth Advocates and our…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  school required everyone to do some form of self-directed research project ... the Bridges conference in Baltimore last summer to present this research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer was playing as it occurred to me that…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  D-3: I need a resume?! I have a busy week ahead–an 18.02 pset due the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz, and…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  ………………………………. ………………………………. ………………………………. Have you ever had that feeling where you have so much going through your head at once that you can’t get anything out. It’s like you have…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This week, someone from my…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have puppies), and classes that will be offered next…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  This week was a four-day week, which made it extremely weird. It seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was a bummer…

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  about MIT, and my research, and they taught me that in Chinese there are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT’s extremely popular introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here’s the first “robot” I ever built, on the first…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014