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• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  become SAD too. So, inputs essentially lead to state change in a state ... the human person could be feeling meh. To add that, we simple create a ... thought to not using a state machine: Designing a calculator without

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I like to talk about my major a lot, but one thing that I guess I haven ... , it's hard to see what's not to love about the department. We've got a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... (a well-balanced diet if you know where to look). I used the money that ... .   Within the past year, I flew to North Carolina on a propeller

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  've never truly made New Years resolutions with a strong commitment to them—I've always just had a vague idea of things that would be nice to do or learn ... [/annotation]without a definite idea of what I want to study. I knew I wanted a biology

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  I'm sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston ... neighbors, it seems like as good a time as any to crank out some thoughts on ... previous posts. Essentially, I worked on a new way to obtain precise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  free time to participate in competitions, take a class in something you ... being a very walkable city, and it’s even more runable! It’s no sweat to ... southern view from the Baker roof (click to see a bigger version): And here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games ... school. But when you move to Boston, it's really hard not to be a Red Sox ... or a floor lounge to find 10+ people anxiously watching everything, and

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  Use sand to seal the edges and let it carbonize for a while. Fast forward to the next step: Put the carbonized material in a plastic bag ... (in sunny weather, it takes a couple of days) and then they're ready to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... a famous photo of me in the news. I don’t want to post it directly ... Russian to be a more valuable volunteer, because a lot of people served by

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... , a 3.5 mile drive from campus. I sprint to get on the bus 3 minutes ... potential ways to solve the problems. I take a nap, and I’m in Hartford in 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  be able to hold a job and successfully complete their schoolwork, so I ... the less money I had to beg from my parents, the better. They paid a lot ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone ... at 10 am and figuring out what tie to wear this morning was a bit of an ... to do with my summer. Last year, I started off my search a little late

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it ... tangent] She was supposed to be a Dodgers fan, hence the blue hat and shirt

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this picture Lisa P. '21 was too busy with 18.03 (?) to pose Jamie A. '21, on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  company names). Now, I’m a junior, so the Career Fair is starting to get a ... time at MIT or if I want to jump into a career straight out of college. Both are equally valid career paths. The Career Fair is a great place to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... DNA. This situation means that a strain unable to grow on glycerol could ... isolate a haploid strain that can not grow on glycerol and want to know what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  electric eel and the tentacled snake. I was there to present a poster of the work I’ve been doing at my UROP this year! My poster! Here's a link to ... to run a really controlled experiment to see if small changes in a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  . It's virtually impossible to summarize yourself in a few paragraphs ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... "Activities" section is to capture a glimpse of you outside of what you look

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited ... " but manage to smile and say "um, maybe taking a gap year before applying to grad school or possibly working if I find a cool company who wants

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... everything you write and syncs it to your computer to be used later in a ... notes you're taking. All it takes is a tap on a word you've written to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009