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• 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 / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena ... broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  "special": this is a chance to read Medieval texts - significant, milestone-in ... structure. Each of our problem sets requires us to write scripts in a ... , a solid backup plan is to give constellation mythology tours in Grand

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean ... in two alliances of three teams each going head to head for a few ... One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Luther King Day, every IAP. A bit before noon, a large crowd began to ... to start solving the puzzles...   We had a wall full of ... there! Coming in the next few days: a post about public vs. private high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  like I was in a snippet of Groundhog's Day. By journaling, I was able to ... progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  final show, where the viewers have to call in their votes. It would be totally awesome to write a blog entry that day and encourage people to watch ... on Season 2 of Beauty and the Geek. Matt Herman '06 was a contest in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  interpreted as a challenge for student groups to 1-up each other in distributing ... carcinogenic musk of charcoal to each bite. In a moment of divine inspiration ... now! (Bonus: Thanks to funding from the MIT Class of '22, everyone in 8

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  Class of 2011 deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do intensive ... haunts in a last bid to say goodbye. But what if you held off on all that ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... the Student Center to check in with the Orientation people. (This is a ... be playing again- to be out there on the field in a game situation. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  single.) First step to moving in: the room required a paint job. Getting ... measures i.e. Hot in Herre on the acoustic guitar), to a tea party, to a ... while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... go for MIT interview?" Eric responded that it would be a good idea to ... . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a well-earned, relaxing weekend after working for 12 days in a row. New ... Well, you heard it here first. The letters are in the mail. For the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  ! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology ... -track minds), had two exhibits to thrill the animal geek in me: a new baby ... think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and ... year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim ... , but I feel a vicarious thrill seeing the same expression reflected in

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  and set-up had all led up to a two-hour performance, and i really didn ... bitterly cold out, so as soon as i got home, i bundled myself in a ton of blankets and napped. the rest of the day passed in a delightful bliss, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... and pick up random stuff. Somehow that led her to a degree in Course XVI ... prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston recently, we flew through a cloud-bank and I was able to take the crazy picture above. Now, I know that it was really a trick having to do with

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  news My favorite thing to do in the summer is cook up a storm, because it ... -based advising. is it bad to be in a dorm and not have a chance to reenter the dorm ... . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006