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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  of the varsity women's crew team We challenged Debbie '06 to tie a ... the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of ... Hogwarts! (I also recently watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ... energized by our diversity, with a meritocratic openness to talent, culture

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please ... about it, but I had no particular intention to. I’d picked up a series of ... was going to go down in flames in a depressing way, rather than a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

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  We understand that helping your child find the right college is a daunting task and that many things have to be considered. We have information and advice that we hope you find helpful on our For parents page.  
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what ... . Looking back at my September 2019 schedule, I went to pretty much a ... listening to someone read a slideshow in the background. It turns cramming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are unacquainted, a lathe and a mill are tools used to machine metal/plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  experience of intense struggling knocked him down a few pegs: “I had to find ... they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make ... off by a final design project that brings them to life. He’s also

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad ... am no longer going to be a college athlete, I think I'd better start

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... ! We planned out an itinerary, booked a hotel, found places to eat, and ... supposed to touch the moss because it takes a really long time to regrow

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  to the counter and checked them onto the flight. I'm not a very ... , which was covered in multiple layers of stickers. A woman who I assumed to ... us to Boston. I talked to the boy for a moment, running through the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  find a job and figure out what they want to do in life. I also used the ... complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  ship. Finally I cleaned up (another team member skipped a meeting to help ... trying to find pancakes; others wanted to make a karaoke event. Other B1 ... be long. Contour takes about three minutes to cut out a small shape, so

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  time to vacation as a family again like this, they decided to make it a ... Medical, but suffice it to say that several xrays and a diagnosis of torn neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  was excited and promptly took a screenshot to share with everyone I knew ... in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  writing to comedy and, uh, culinary, which is a testament to the interesting ... process from its inception as a one-page project proposal to UA Innovation ... decided that it was an achievable way to bring students together in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no ... ="116802" /] 10:00 - I BlueBike over to MIT Campus As MIT students, we get a ... to turn her 2.009 project, a sea turtle egg incubator, to be more

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  nipping at my heels and it seemed a bit irresponsible to not devote my full ... 'm back to update you guys with a few things that've made me happy over ... single handedly fuelled a generation of STEM majors. As a kid who went to a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  . Along top: part of a lyrics mural of Sting’s “The Last Ship,” at one time ... 22, I went to see My Little Pony: the Movie in theatres at 10:30pm on a ... . Picked up a new hobby recently to go with my Hulu/Netflix/YouTube. I wrote

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  mechanical engineering, I made a point to have a more relaxing IAP while still ... back now, so that's great! Though I have to work a little more on ... SIGGRAPH only comes once a year, so the time leading up to it is quite hectic

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014