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• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  Acrylic in a 60 Watt Universal Systems Free Standing CO2 Laser Cutter Laser ... scratch!   Step 1: Visualize the sign in your designated space ... and visualize pretty much whatever you want in 3D regardless of what you

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since ... , it's not like you're the oldest person in the company by any stretch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  third UROPs, offers were made to me unexpectedly in casual conversations ... best-known biomedical engineers in the world. He holds 500 issued and pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... would read papers that seemed to offer brilliant observations about the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  regulated by institutional, state, and federal policy. And, while we offer ... development) backend is awful and really gets in the way we needed some better ... better use of our incredible wealth of content in old blog posts Here's a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in ... -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... started another in the Atrium (between 100 and 200 Technology Square

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  Cyberspace. I am also thinking about this week's topic in CMS.701, echo ... result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively ... with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  students affiliated with it) also offers free classes in water sports like ... “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super ... attempting to sail around the Charles in some light wind. We didn’t take any

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  . They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P ... ice cream, donuts, dinners at fraternities. So keep the cash in your ... visit labs, classes, and get exposed to everything that MIT has to offer

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... DID YOU KNOW? MIT means "WITH" in German. CPW! CPW! Hey prefrosh, I ... some of my incredibly dedicated colleagues in blogging, but I have an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  Transportation was what got me into urban planning in the first place! So I decided ... , we've discussed the history of transportation in the United States ... and most convoluted infrastructure projects in US history most famous

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  me it was really sweet how that person described their experience in ... night in my early years here. i treat myself like i would an old friend. i take my shortcomings in stride and i don't shy away from acknowledging my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  in cities and ambition, paul graham writes: “Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... a very bright yellow bag tucked under the seat in front of him - it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and ... . options at the end of my job search i had offers from the following three ... hedge fund, let’s call them D. i had an offer for a quant research (QR

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  . This is a theme that comes up SO much in Steven Universe This last ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXb_PCLF1Sw[/embed] In just under a year, Cartoon Network blessed the world ... relationships with such little time and dialogue. We loved the squiggly lines in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  doing her Masters in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University ... opportunities. I lived in Paris for about 10 weeks during the summer of 2009 through the MISTI program. I worked in an experimental fluids lab at ESPCI

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to UROP because you basically ARE einstein

  

  This past Friday, I was in lab from [annotation note='IMPORTANT NOTE: this is not regular and I offered to be there the whole time, it was not ... , over 90% of students will participate in a UROP before graduating, making it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 26, 2026