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• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in ... the lobby, I told people that the score was 6-0 (true) in favor of the ... wondered if people would reconsider my credibility about everything else I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went ... . In my defense, I'll say that I'm a lot less of a drama queen than I was in high school... although objectively I suppose there was nowhere to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  would happen in my life between then and now. I changed my lifestyle, my ... roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... caught up in camp-life. I braced myself for all of the academic challenges

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  . Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love ... . Each opportunity was different from the others in how many hours I spent ... computer science. I first learned to use Scratch in high school in order to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  ! I'm scared to sit in this house just because I know what's been in ... would have been the kind of math that causes a ringing in your ears and ... of: Back to MIT I headed, stopping in Lobby Seven so I could point

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  in this picture too but I couldn't find anyone passing by who would lay ... To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that ... summer, I would highly suggest watching Dance 360, America's hottest dance

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  — where i would be right now in my life/my career/my education would be ... 'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... opportunities in classes and in clubs. I am taking SP.747-Creative Imaging, a ... assignment was to bring in photos and talk about why we liked/disliked them. I

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  I know... ...Mother Nature would actually oblige. The next day, it ... Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  time I step on a scale, I find myself doing the BMI calculation in my ... disease, or diabetes, or cancer. In general, a shorter lifespan. But I ... ? Probably not. I'm struggling to think of what would actually convince me to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  your day running errands. If I were to redo this entry, I would sit down ... Assumption 3. Notable events in chronological order Winnie and I ... basil plant, so I bought another one to prove that I am, in fact, capable

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  place is in this gigundous planet we call home that I never would have ... , but in Italy? That would NEVER happen." I came to Japan to immerse ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  experience that I never would've had without my family pushing me to get in the ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... , and the fraternity I was living in over the summer had free cereal 24

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... very little time in big cities like Baltimore. So I begged local ... ") to that point. Who would have thought that many years later I'd be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt ... part of one's identity. I love my neighborhood back in Kentucky, and its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  ’t do particularly well in any of them. I ended up with a 3.9/5.0 semester GPA and a D in 10.490. I’ve never gotten a D in my life, and I’m sure many of you are in the same boat. It’s quite a humbling feeling; one I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  - This album was so empowering in ways I cannot even word. I would listen ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020