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• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  troops for battle. The army men hunker down in a trench (...created by a ... from a ferocious piranha. The funeral for the fallen soliders of battle ... At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  reproduce the answer. When you're completely stumped in a lecture for a course ... slow to a crawl as you work on the same question for half an hour with no ... , who has some background with the course, or a professor/fellow. These

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  a floor. The freshman girls also painted records for the senior girls ... on my floor for the next two and a half years, but the culture and ... ,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  lost a few too many points on the final and wound up with a B+ for the ... the extra three points I needed for an A! Moral of the story? Don ... broadsided with something close to a 30/100. For the second exam, which he

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my ... will never forgive me for the crime of me going to a Shawn Mendes concert

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  a full one (not realizing that the one I saved for myself was dry ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  for the Superbowl, a charcuterie for...Galentine's Day? Palentine's Day ... I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that ... literally all the time. I'm also going through a break-up...and it sucks. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in ... too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  sum for the first time here in Boston. A group of about 12 of us went to ... with a nice steak. Our waiter didn't ask for her ID, and I was a little ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , when the future (the one where you have to be a responsible adult and ... people on this planet, learned a lot about the HIV epidemic and went on my ... into a lock for refugee camp latrines 14) Did a lot of organic

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Foundation: Laura Deming wants to extend the human lifespan for a few more centuries—at the very least. She started working in a biogerontology lab when ... than 400 people applied, a selection rate of less than 6%. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  in Boston (equivalent to the Taiwanese consulate in Boston) for a ... was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that ... development in the United States, if not the world. It's like a New Yorker

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of ... hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  applied for the job and after a couple of phone interviews and some ... distance, and then took a cable car back to BART for the trip back. Back at ... commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  “The Arm”, and a base I’ll call… well I don’t really have a name for that ... two rubber bands to create a one-way door to catch hold onto the levers ... little frame for you. It would be neat if it also lowered the resolution by

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  engineering for that much. I got some immediate responses saying that the ... , and the next day, I had a UROP. One of Professor Griffith's research ... the design of a bioreactor. Basically, the goal of the bioreactor is to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation ... started using a stopwatch to time some of the walks I’ve made. Simmons to ... , and as I enter, the all-wood space opens up to a giant staircase that I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for ... had given lip service to the idea that you could get a research job, if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  land a job at Twitch for the summer about a month before COVID-19 hit the ... , or a nice area in the middle of a city, and was super excited for the ... with a couple of friends who've also kept their employment for the summer

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020