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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  ).  Since then, I've been on the ETOOMUCHADVENTURE side of things - the curse ... -coordinated tournament on the ISS. The goal of this UROP?  To write a game, teach it to ... to join the team of 10 UROPs that made this happen. Our first order of

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a ... ) lecture fell prey, and, by the third week of classes, I just stopped ... only remaining means of learning the material, since I had proven myself

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so ... , an explosion of water, and rock, and steam, and dust, and ash. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my experience at CPW will be very different than that of a prefrosh, I'm inviting ... be posted starting the week after CPW.

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... research involving polymer chemistry. I enjoyed the best of a friendly ... difficulty in integrating into a German community; the vast majority of people

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  : (Neerja and I didn't enjoy one of the activities that much at first) We bonded like crazy and ended up having the best times of our lives :) So FUP was tons of fun and one of the best experiences ever!! I love

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  helicopters carry their relatively miniscule payloads of water (relative to the size of the fire and frequency of water dumps), I can't help but think ... it's certainly a problem crying out to be solved. The summer/fall of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  rental (Sorry, that excludes Valley of the Dolls) - You must have at least ... the top 5 songs and/or top 5 CD's of all time. (You can mix and match, so long as you don't exceed a total of 10 per genre) Here are the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Electric Mayhem. But the biggest time sink of all of these is MASLab, the ... with that name after Brian '08, one of my teammates, said that on the ... about such things, the picture displayed is of a sample finite

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... , despite the fact that there was definitely a layer of snow on the ground ... Section 2.12 of the Rules of the Faculty, no classes or tests can be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best times of the year. This will, of course, be my third - I've had one from the freshman point of view and one from the upperclassman point of view

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of ... asymptotically how can we quantify the notion of "information" and estimating ... : the mathematical knowhow to take a bunch of scary symbols and boil it

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  , they were designed with the new phenomenon of cars in mind. Copenhagen ... taxes, which can double the price of a car. I’m not sure how this ... ’t make them inaccessible? All of the associated costs of having a car, such

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary ... say the very least, the bane of my existence throughout elementary and ... and have been in front of a computer since the age of 3 and never, ever

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  that its persons of the year are Bill and Melinda Gates and U2's Bono ... Executive Director of the Poverty Action Lab. Bono (above) & Banerjee ... First up, The Economist profiled Professor Gruber's research on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win ... “craft bold, memorable designs that capture the unique spirit of the Class

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in ... bottom of the email, after we had already (extensively) drafted, reviewed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message ... the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... even though it’s packed most of the time. I also found out that vegan

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020