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• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... of it, a pusher motor that pushes the next dart in and the flywheel ... known as step motor or stepping motor, is a brushless DC electric motor

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  decision in life comes a tradeoff: you get to go to MIT in exchange for, well ... startups in order to be a course 6. I like my soul for maybe the first time ... Note: So, you may or may not have noticed that my name is ~different

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  's debate at MIT is worth a blog post in itself. Or six. The best thing to do ... self-control. View Dining around MIT in a larger map Let's start with ... -flavors-of-Triscuits supermarket. The fruit is an order of magnitude cheaper than at LaVerde's in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  architect be placed in a particular climate change context? Is there a way to ... probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is ... : the micro-internship and the class. But even then, “having time” is a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  Venus is a fairly predictable thing.” He paused, switching the settings on ... of the world was overcast, but somewhere in the Pacific Ocean a cruise ... cardboard eclipse glasses. “Is that it?” “No, honey, that’s a bug. It should

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... is a collection of 80 images taken from all around MIT’s campus around

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  decided to let her "write" this entry in some sense -- I asked her a few ... , so I grew up in their studio and developed a passion for designing ... sister moved up to Boston with me and I did a project in microfluidics

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  idea is to prove I am a qualified student for MIT, but i'm not sure i'd I ... because this is a real problem for me, getting them in the first place was ... purevolume site in my essays. Is this a smart move? Will the admissions staff

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to ... A-Level. I find this baffling. Also, as my final grades come out in ... . ------------------------------------- Shuja wrote: "Is it ok if my MV Cal and Physics C grade reports are in by

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  major in 6-2 (electrical engineering and computer science), a major in 4-B (art and design), and a minor in CMS (comparative media studies). Some other statistics: The smallest number of units I took in a semester was

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  16x16 sized boards. In fact, in my engine, every board is a subset of a ... ."]bitboard.[/annotation] A bitboard is just a mapping from bits in the number to places on the board. We can do this in a number of ways, but in protochess this is done

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  , anyway, take this for what it is: a snapshot in the life of a twenty ... bandit and posted a mile-by-mile account in this blog entry. It was pretty ... training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... writing was more than a hobby, it is a passion equivalent to my love for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  it in 2021. my acceptance transferred over a year, which made for an ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I ... a startup and 2. think Israel's start up scene is sick. around

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... Championships in San Jose, CA Stayed with a host family in Germany while ... the country Spent a week with my grandparents and dad in Hong Kong and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  fall. This summer they are mentors in Project STEEM, a program at Texas A ... Landers attended Project STEEM as high school students in 2007. (A ... are enrolled in an independent studies math class at A&M-Commerce taught

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  country is most famous for – and so registering for 4S.10 was a no-brainer. Now, let me warn you that, although this post is a summary, it is far ... unspectacular). I stayed with a gracious friend in the East End (with whom I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  intrested in ur school after hearing from a friend.whats is the possibility of ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i am, anything i’m not (rush, part 3) and finding out that i'm both

  

  and, for the first time in a week and change, didn’t have anything much ... surprise at having received a text at four in the morning from Jonathan ... referred to as a ‘bid dinner’ because it is the final moment of rush before

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 15, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  the end of a semester at MIT is a time of juxtaposition. it is a time of delight and sadness, of triumph and melancholia; it is a fast time and a slow time; it is a time of midnight doomerism and late afternoon

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025