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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  electric shock at times when I tried to power a robot by plugging a wire ... spent on the iterative design process and what it takes in order to be ... .007: From the MIT News Office: "In addition to the stair-climbing wheelchair

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard ... social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we ... involved. In the great tradition of MIT, our undergraduates want to pioneer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  ,” and then proceeded to do so….   When I came to MIT as a super ... . Look as a blogger I feel slightly obligated to tell you guys otherwise ... of the core aspects that caused me to work hard in high school. I would

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from ... in an airport in a totally unfamiliar city. Ask me questions. If you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  , more than ever, it is so easy to save the life of a child in poverty for ... do for a living in order to free yourself and make more fulfilling ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  .']totalizing,[/annotation] a topic to actually write about in a comprehensive way in a single ... first day in a blitz of answering questions and trying to learn everything ... junior high (in ~2010) boys who came to a competition I was staffing, would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  to do. We apply what we learn in a big design project... where we make ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... childhood memories... and decided to make a yo-yo based on the 1996 movie

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  in the months to come! ___ That's it for now! I have a couple other ... turns out, it's not a good idea to accidentally push down on your laptop screen, since they tend to crack. sitting in the very center of an exam

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in ... teams all raced (note remember to post results).   Now crew is a ... really start learning when you get to MIT. I have a few friends who row

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a ... finish one of my 6.009 labs, so I submitted a confession in mostly cap lock

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  and running to tell the rest of my siblings. I may have cried a little ... worsened my mood. I had gotten in to MIT. Now, I can't help but feel that ... just a few things I wanted to share with all of you. 0. CONGRATULATIONS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a vicious attack. Not to be deterred or beaten down, a recovery mission was ... gave it a ceremonial sending off in the moat and sought a replacement. A

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  should arrive very soon! In the meantime, please don't forget to register ... , simply send a message to [email protected] and we'll be happy to take ... '12 had created a job-awesomeness formula for me. To understand it, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog ... demonstrate your capacity to communicate: forum posts, a weekly editorial in the ... hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh were placed in dorms based on a ranking form they filled out. From Aug 31 ... decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  .  It was a great opportunity to see some wonderful speakers, connect with ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... 'm kinda old.  I graduated 1.5 years ago, and originally applied to MIT in

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  to a lot of people from the dorm he has lived in the past two summers ... threw three in a row and popped all three!  I told him to try, and he ... incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean

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

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  to grow peas in Manhattan?” A quotation from my Biological Science ... .30; 21A.453 In alphabetical order, this term, I am taking: Anthropology ... saying, “I'm married to a lactose-intolerant person. She's otherwise very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... ’ve grown close to the people in the club: those who are just as eager to ... .651 D-Lab Energy class, we made briquettes (a dense fuel dominant in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 's difficult, of course, to generalize about a school of 4000 people, but I am ... -- write them, put them in a drawer for a few days, come back, revise, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005