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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  advisor several times a semester; advising seminars (for credit), which ... over the course of the semester. I drew out patterns for a big chicken ... hand, and more importantly, it’s kind of like a hub for a lot of

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

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am ... by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a ... ,000 participants for a fundraising Walkathon and Family Day Fair with the theme

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane, sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent ... up. A woman across the aisle from me DID throw up: whether from terror

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3 different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  morning, I peddled a small piece of my soul in exchange for my academic ... thought of the title. After my advising meeting, I loitered for a few hours ... resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  're in a major for which it's required. Also, because they're computer ... . I'm in it for two major reasons. The first is that I'm a systems geek ... I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four ... fifth one was breaking out a laptop for verification as we spoke. Now ... . Protection from small insects 4. Never mistaken for a girl if somebody looks at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached ... Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive   For a more detailed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful ... new Bioengineering major, for example, was considering holding a lottery ... , biology, a lottery is held every term for 7.02. There's just not enough

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  it would make up for a lower CR score but I guess not. There is at ... certainly won't hurt you, but unfortunately it will not make up for a lower CR ... how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  battling wordpress to get this out so it's a little over for me"]I’m crunched for time,[/annotation] I’m going to do a mind ... Corporate Relations for our Blueprint hackathon, and had a pretty good time

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  ="it takes up to two years for a book to actually be published after it sells ... drop me for, like, being a failure of a writer who couldn’t get her life ... submission in early April. And a week later, Penny asked me for my schedule

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  with some coding experience and a passion for solving problems and ... until the next morning (with a break for sleep). The next day, they ... went to Snipmap, a browser extension and desktop application for writing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  supervisor. me: i've been running it for A While now and it's on iteration 700 ... semester I took five classes, which was a first for me. 6 ... ! Grades aren't everything, but this was a really big moment for me. In

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  first chance for the fencing sophomores to show off their new rings at a ... After rocking the jeans + sweater/t-shirt look for almost an entire school year, two events occurred last Thursday and Friday that required a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  . A crucial note for overseas readers and others unfamiliar with The ... Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The ... female fighter pilots. She flew the F/A-18 Hornet. At MIT, she is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011