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• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  to afford. A major challenge for many people is finding fuel, usually ... projects that really do help people, which I think is a fantastic thing to be ... demonstration was a giant switch connected to a giant inductor. A volunteer closed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  talent at building tiny airplanes led to him being offered a job at Google ... ’s a bit of a Star Wars nut, and recently, he’s been on a quest to build and fly one of every ship in Wookieepedia. Step one, obviously, is to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll ... : (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for ... guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• 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.

  

  Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise ... thumbtacks, bought the summer before I came to MIT, probably during a 2 am trip ... grow into my answer to problem 2-3a of the new 6.046/18.410 (algorithms

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  THINK (a super cool program that high schoolers should apply to!! Deadline ... lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... I can’t bring my laptop or a book to bed unless I want it to fall out ... ’ve heard can help a person fall asleep faster. Second, since I sleep next to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this ... FSAE instead. But then Adelaide '09 brought me back to earth. She's a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  master's degree. Cons: Might be hard to find a TA-ship (which is how ... my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... rejected from a lot of jobs, so I'm going to subtract 30% from that total

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  organized and had an extra day to bake, so although I became a little stressed out, I was still able to crank out a few dishes: -homemade apple butter ... . Diana '08 went to the trouble of bringing out a pasta maker and making her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  wanted to become a programmer, but we had too many of those already, so to ... before finally converging on the correct method to saw in a straight line. I learned to use a tap by accidentally snapping off the tap while it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  calmed me down, added a slight glaze to my eyes, and made me demand more ... due to both. Apart from aging me a bit, MIT has also done its best to ... , everything was completely new, and there was a lot. At MIT I learned how to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic properties of a chemical reaction, or how to succinctly prove that If an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles ... an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  a shuttle with a lot of other students each day to JPL.  There is also ... campus everyday on each hour.  Quite a few MIT students go each year to ... and exciting. After an awesome tour of Herbert's lab, I got a chance to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  school obsession, I felt contractually obligated to write about a song from ... the 6th grade, and aside from the song “My Shot” (which I find a bit repetitive), the only other track I regularly chose to skip was “Take a Break

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  magical. Can't wait for the next episodes to find out more! The scene ... circle to a half circle to show he is annoyed. Randall the water blob was ... to hear when she felt her parents' divorce was her fault. This was a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  , a YouTube series meant to bridge the student-faculty divide by showing ... fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and ... as a person. We invite professors to ~1 hr interviews (over tea!), that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  --I know a lot of undergrads often find startups to be very profitable ... imagination. I awoke with a jerk. Finding that the weather report was calling ... 's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ship floated under one of the few patches of clear sky. A couple leaned ... Longfellow bridge was evacuated. A patrol boat crisscrossed from one bank to ... ." The fireworks started, finally, to cheers from the crowd and a rumbling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the ... popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009