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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  , the right side offers a daily glimpse of the culture and output of MIT ... degree of creativity and their deep understanding of current and ... mit.edu. It was designed and built by the same agency, Upstatement, that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  . These were Masters students working as part of their degree. Laura ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  list of various non-school things I do at/not at MIT. Though I have read ... much to the majority of schools I applied to who still invited me to ... schools that required the GRE general test. Luckily for me, a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  of the day and long into the night was spent on my set design project ... to my set design blog (don't read it too closely- the last half of the ... Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion-based classes designed for students who are interested in taking an active role in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... idea is that students in England come out of high school (or Sixth Form ... Cambridge ones, will have done as part of their undergraduate degree, or one

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  mechanical engineering class offered in the spring in which we design and build ... . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on ... /shows/fundraisers, as well as all kinds of junk from fellow students who want to share

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  uninteresting; I ended up spending a lot of time out of school that year, drawing ... art school instead of MIT”. My art teacher, the mentor I found in the ... I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and currently Design Partner ... successfully pursued the intersection of technology and design. After the ... to pursue design in an engineering/tech-centered school. His response

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... are grad school in Aeronautics/Astronautics and hopefully a couple of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  I like? Can the size of the smaller school offer a more supportive ... of APs you should take. If your school offers AP calculus, we hope you ... not accelerated in any way (fault of the high school). In addition, i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  history, establishing, among other things, the School of Humanities, Arts ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of ... the legendary Debbie Douglas, director of collections at the MIT Museum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... ... try the Kickboxing PE Class Looking for History of Magic, try: 21A.211 ... Introduction to Astronomy Looking for Care of Magical Creatures, try 21H.909

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  : School of Engineering first, School of Science nearly last. Each individual ... train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to ... across the front of the student center and almost all the way to Mass Ave

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  universities don't have undergraduate urban planning degrees and no other school in the country offers a degree that combines computer science and urban ... class size of any school I applied to. It's definitely nice to be in a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  ” informs the design of legs. “legs” is a broad term here, including wheels ... degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on sale”, someone who took advantage of the resources of my school to make

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  were some folks there who had made a bunch of their own designs and then milled them out of wood, and who were open sourcing their designs to get ... one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  outreach programs under the School of Engineering at MIT for underrepresented ... science and engineering experiences to over 3,000 middle and high school students free of charge.