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  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities ... availability of projects around campus while giving a glimpse into the labs of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or ... without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time ... Learning division). The office was located at the end of Memorial Drive, so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... time. (Which I loved, of course.) The people there are seriously the

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... -tech training tools I was really surprised by the layers of safety and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... .” With the exception of another friend actually from New Jersey, people ate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... problems from a lot of competitions, but by far the most valuable resource for me was the AoPS forum. Some of the best and brightest students

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the most permanent aspect of how (if you’ll excuse the pun) [annotation note ... grandfather’s grave.    When I came to MIT, the repertoire of places I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  rank second in number of installed vending machines in the [annotation ... most popular dialect of japanese besides the tokyo dialect ... story was the equivalent of three stories high, thus creating a 20-story

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the ... . You’ve been lied to by the [annotation note="A shocking amount of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game ... certain things remain the same: two alliances of three robots each compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  procrastinating about blogging throughout the majority of the second semester ... opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the ... Sciences. The departmental requirements are full of classes I would like to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and ... ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me – if something’s messed up, it’s usually to blame.) The real gem of this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  degree but most likely can't. The past couple of days have been a series ... I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive ... . Five of the eight people in crabmeats are from southern California so we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  . Bryan '07 offered all of the prefrosh blog readers a chance to write a ... have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... particularly acute bout of despair, thinking of the wisdom he would share with us ... of it all. Aside from holding Mary Oliver close to the heart, how might

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the ... "]blogger roommates[/annotation] which is very cool, but many of us only see the others ... -lived episode of m*thbusters and bust out the party music because WELCOME TO

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube ... much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream ... -minute walk off campus. Now they have a space right in the center of campus

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• 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 ... , this is the first time comics class has been offered; up until this

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023