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• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  network for a summer internship and scheduled a second meeting in a few days ... apostrophe!"  You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a ... 's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  only being a whiz with anything electrical (or musical) but also for ... find a spare one for me), so I had to go through each pin manually and ... that I wanted this to be a playable, hand-held game: I was going for a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... Waffle" (based out of the Simmons Hall dormitory, which looks like a space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  responsibilities? That’s a good question for next time. ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] My name is Mirat and I am a junior studying ... year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... about my experiences here as a guest author. First off, some perks of life

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  admitted here?” question in a very bad way. Everyone was ready for spring ... . Spring break felt more like a gasp for breath than a vacation. I spent time ... nothing for a while. But they figured it out anyway. I have lived and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I ... a Zoom call asking people for suggestions, because choosing computer ... that. Now that I'm a month into using Manjaro after using Windows for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  probably took a year off our lives — story for another time?— it gave us time ... love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... undoubtedly procrastinating far more important matters—   "If we

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  (for which I still owe you the summary, I know) we had a group discussion ... . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a school unless he or she has verified it with a primary source. Serving as

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  that are most important to you, the parent, so don't be afraid to ask for ... in their red Parent Connector polo shirts so keep a lookout for them. A ... comments in viewing my dorm when I was a student at MIT but for me it was the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... working in Solidworks (a program used for modeling on the computer) and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend ... , reasons for their success as well as their importance in Belgium today. I ... put on a haunted house for the kids of our local neighborhood. While I

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... dedicated a few hours to poring over everything that I needed to know. For me ... worse because of it. Aim for a good night's sleep if there's something

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  the future of DACA and, as a result, understandable concern for our ... legal advice they need.   The MIT Mission, which is a touchstone for ... As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... , toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place... ...for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  class, but for some really dumb reason, I lost a bunch of points on this ... .) * Conditions apply. Effect reported for a significant cross-section of the ... . The claim is reported for a 95% confidence interval only. However, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  , at least) had been out of the spotlight for a few years? Was it ... to follow -- after a man's death, and I heard them praise him for his ... tribute scheduled for Friday. Today, spending a few hours in the car, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  to our central goal of developing a high throughput bioreactor for ... school is somewhat an apprenticeship in which you prepare yourself for a ... supportive was a crucial and important thing to me. However, don't expect Old

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  (nevermind that it was 11 PM on a Sunday). Duh! So, I turned around and ... . =) Keep in mind this is all after 11 PM on a Sunday! I got back to my ... So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  brace for impact and hope for the best. You have to fall with them a ... things just a little bit better for the people around you? Not, of course ... —cooking every day for a week, writing poetry again, attending the occasional

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022