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• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  swanky hotel in the early 1900’s, then it was a grad dorm for 70 years, so ... for later): 1) Do I need a mini fridge? Are you on a meal plan? If the ... room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  A: the sweet flyer that lured me into taking one of my current classes ... writing! (And thankfully the flyer does a great job of answering the most ... mailing list is named—spot the reference?) is a cozy nine-person comics

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a ... the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  called poly(glycerol-co-sebacate acrylate), created a mold for the polymer ... Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue ... their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  Midnight. We switched off the generator and the glaring light died. A ... happily forgot about insects for four years in a wealth of friends, classes ... for “moths brazil” and this was the first hit. Look, here was an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  Global Grand Challenges Summit Staff for the photo! Monday night: A ... evening as some of us head out to the Asgard, a nearby Irish pub, for one ... motivation behind our team's product for the upcoming design pitches. Figure 3

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  became a tradition. Every equation sheet I've ever written for an exam at ... before the exam. (Despite the fact that I was always sort of afraid that a ... week (I believe it was while planning for CPW last year, and around the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  we sit down for the concert, which is being held in a small recording ... conductor comes and talks to the MIT students for a while. We ask him how the ... harpsichord for a good portion of the piece. He replies, "well, we've been doing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  , either over the summer or as a project for a gap semester. An expired one ... the other side. A giant turtle on my loft, which I’ve had for as long ... Max made me when he was tiny. Most of the colors have rubbed off. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  from the womb of Google search statistics. What follows may be read as a sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the ... contains salt.” The implications of this next gem of a screenshot are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four ... . I can tell you that the answers (in order) will be a nine-letter word

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  brought several hands-on demos for the audience (including a sheep’s brain ... appendix for a more detailed account. The TL;DR is that I needed a major ... office hours just a few weeks later. They were both under the guise that I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  I need to post something. The blogs have been dormant for a few days ... write this.) 3.) The third is Chrome, where I'm now searching around for ... , Delhi for 2 days, and Gujarat for about a week. (GF's family background

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  recitation for the semester - since we don't have class next Friday, and the ... of my friends brought a broomstick to the theater as his "costume" and ... the displeasure of a certain David '13 ('sup!) whose name at least 298

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  for more than fifty years, stretching over the tenures of half a dozen ... demonstrated results. The admissions office has a profound responsibility. We ... . I remember the first time I felt this energy, arriving on campus as a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  . Hopefully, this is one of the more dreary blogs I write for a while. It was ... happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool ... table, etc. For much of the two weeks, the lab looked a lot like this ... is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little ... the number of AP classes; it's about how prepared you are for the ... So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  ? Don’t ask for the definition of a word; just smile, nod, and Google it ... you to clarify what’s on the board; they’ll ridicule you for poor eye ... . Don’t go to office hours; you don’t want the TAs to put a name to a face

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  up filing a patent at the end of his internship for a new radar ... throughout the country for the past year, with intermittent internet shutdowns ... situation. For a month, my father would try to call home only to get an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018