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• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  at a distance. Here’s a short (and apologetically low quality) video of ... is at a final presentation and tech fair type of event:   But ... I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  was hosted at the MIT Museum, catered (with zero waste, of course) by ... defined by their mastery of rare tools, but by their mastery of common tools. Yet since rarity of skill and rarity of tools are so often and easily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  This semester, almost all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays ... ?) Besides the plenitude of classrooms, some of Building 4's most enjoyable ... for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... if we add more vectors?) Let’s look at the tiles. Each of the tiles is ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it ... ’ve been procrastinating). That is, until I found an exhaustive list of quotes from the lovely captain of the lightweight women’s crew team, Sharon

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  fall. People are good at calibrating on the physical level of risk they ... kept this instinct of natural fear and uncertainty for months even at MIT ... objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  engineer of cognitive systems at Charles River Analytics, an applied ... . Every year at MIT, there's some large number of students who get into huge ... the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  sprinkles..) Yesterday was my last day of work at Schubert's Bakery in San ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... .) Unfortunately, I went to a big public high school of about 2000+, so my high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... :D Even more ironically, the snow chose to arrive during the middle of ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating ...  combination of classes, psets, UROPs, sports, and trying to maintain a healthy social life spirals out of control, and your self-confidence drops faster

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  If you ask anyone at MIT what they were like days before decisions ... pride that we have (p-sets took most of it away). But rest assured that ... my suspicion with 100% certainty. I read Paul's entry, was very much at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... , well, IAP. Oops. :) So, here's a quick recap of what I've done so far during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email ... prepared to be part of an dynamic MIT community next fall.   ... unsuccessful, my advice to you is to make your next 2-3 years at your current

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  Game. This was my first time in all four years that I'd been at MIT that ... to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools, MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and ... 'm special. Perhaps this year I'll get crazy and occasionally sit at that ... you out of your reading chair and into an adventure, each applicant

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  Bosnia. While he's proud of his scholarship, he says it's not his biggest achievement. Push-Kar has been a regular at Western's Vampy Camp, a program for ... 's education at MIT is worth nearly $200,000. He's considering a double major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Come to AXO Lip Sync! Come to AXO Lip Sync tonight to see some of your friends... "remember when????"

  

  entertained? If you answered yes to any or all of the questions above, buy a ticket to AXO Lip Sync! WHEN: Saturday April 29th, 8PM (Doors open at 7:30) WHERE: Johnson COST: $6 in advance, $7 at door WHY: To support the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  it to the front page so more people would see it. None of this makes it better - you SHOULD be angry with us. At the same time, if I could ask ... want to spend a lot of time on the boards and the blogs, but a guy can

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  . Starry Night in the style of Mango[/caption] I stared at the solid black ... flourishes in every corner of MIT. When I dropped my stuff off at my host ... ’s a strange serenity to coding late at night to a mug of hojicha tea and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky ... up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the past three weeks sapping so much time. The barrage of classes, problem

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013