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• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  have been saving up money for a major purchase you’re likely to quickly ... late signal for the problem’s emergence. in many cases it is such a late ... key accuracy as a proxy for piano skill, i’d accidentally equated the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  between steps. i still have a lot to do. i have papers for a discussion-based class tomorrow that i haven't read yet, and i have a quiz for my other ... being in the area for four whole years??? but i'm excited to have a reason

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was ... for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  by a carefully selected playlist. I look forward to the commute for ... , we discuss the pilot challenge for assessment competencies. It’s a ... 10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... . Sean was a beloved campus police officer, a member of the MIT Outing Club ... Collier's Cranes, a hack of thousands of paper cranes hung suspended inside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  seen, although I suppose you could think of the chain as a metaphor for ... " for "telescope") but I'll finish off with a discussion of light ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  !! Thanks everyone for such a fantastic week :) and thanks to my dear friend ... After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... that was touched by my incessant need for a challenge. From the ... was turning in a p-set for 5.111...or 5.12, I can't remember at this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  crystalline side-chain block copolymers for actuator applications". That's a bunch of big words for a simple idea. 1: Attach liquid crystals (the ... because a lot of the equations (MHD, for example) are impossible to solve

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  approach to introductory chemistry for those who aren't planning to go into a ... each and appear on alternating days, providing for a daily calculus ... (with some photos, too.) 1.A24: You CAN Get There From Here! This is a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  visited before, for the primary reason that it was a nice-looking park that you could get to on the T, therefore saving us from having to pay for a ... app when I had a fun idea for an app; I play board games with my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a ... weekend I'll return to the Bay for the annual Maker Faire Bay Area to give a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  physicist," he revealed. "He’s a social worker!” After chatting for a few ... (Harvard grad school for Lucas, Germany for a year and then Caltech grad ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  I was confused when I was put into a room with three strangers at the beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  individual with spunk and character. As a result, I strived for A's, worked ... challenge. Obviously, we wouldn't have come to MIT if we weren't up for a ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  a study abroad is kind of like matchmaking. For one month (or ... it wasn't a complete 100% vacation =p). For me, I haven't done Spanish ... looking for, and he directed me upstairs. Now, with A LOT MORE nervousness

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW ... . After graduation, we fell out of touch for a few years until one day he

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  For the past four years, Sid Puram has had a UROP in the renowned ... microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... important stuff. If you have time, go with Barron’s and use it for at least a month prior to the test if you really want to prepare well for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  posting quite often, for a bit – enjoy!"]recently started posting again ... just made me completely incapable of making a single post for so long. I ... made some positive changes that would have made for a more balanced

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020