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  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  . Check them out! Here are a few highlights: 2.007: Design and ... -confidence as design engineers. Emphasis on the creative design process bolstered by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  (President of MUJI) and Hartmut Esslinger (Founder of Frog Design) gave a joint-lecture on "What MUJI and Design Can Offer the World of the Future". They ... on the bus, I realized that everything I do - work, blogs, grad school

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  "multi-purpose simulation tool designed to evaluate the performance of ... levels (daylight, temperature) of a proposed design. This simulation ... break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  -time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts ... people to dress up as the cast of Hey Arnold! or The Magic School Bus for ... varying degrees of notice (1 day-5 minutes). Left: Well, these guys kept

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  ’t heard of the famous 2.00b Toy Design, I refer you here and here and here ... write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between ... choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  experiencing them. I mildly detested my last couple years of high school during ... the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... killed on his bike in elementary school, the restriction of personal

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue ... , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  going with it, regardless of the details. MyMIT was never designed to be ... didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  of them, I couldn't very well design my own experiments. Although I wasn't in charge of experimental design for this project, it's not like ... even when I wasn't designing the experiments I had a lot of freedom

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  , everything must be designed so that the driver can jump out of the car in five ... Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull 4 Gs? Better yet, are you interested in working on a team to design

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  interview at School C. This obviously creates a cohesive little community of ... knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never ... I know I just wrote an entry about grad school interviews, but my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  software designer for computer network communication systems -- and one of ... know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... Sun Microsystems, inventor of the spanning tree algorithm (!). Check

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD ... community events, students learn about all types of design and related fields ... part of DesignPlus, and it’s had a big impact on our MIT experiences so

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  one more lecture called Design of Projects; Canonical Patterns, as well ... -day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp… Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  state of business, stress, and exhaustion; swamped and overloaded with ... a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the past few weeks.   WINTER BREAK It's been a whirlwind of events

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  partner to design, build, and test a water rocket with an objective of ... streamlined design of the tip to minimize drag, the payload inside the nose and ... stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  high schools). Others, like yours are pretty small. Some of the students ... population of home-schooled students here and others with non ... for MIT are also the valedictorian of their high school. Many times

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  justifiably proud. We stuck labels on everything to describe some of our design ... ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... from MIT and immediately went back to my old summer job from high school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009