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• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  to my friend Ty who is a senior in the house that was more experienced ... working on this and had to get a picture.[/caption]   Step 5: Mix in ... reference, the previous sign was a printed banner which to me felt pretty old

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  some point, I felt a presence, and looked up to find Frank Wilczek ... yourself stuck on, say, a college essay - maybe it's time to invest in some ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again It's been three years, but I'm back!

  

  to my YouTube channel. I'll also embed the stream in a blog entry so ... present some backstory. In the year 2020 there was a little thing that ... stitch kit so they could join along in the stream! CPW returned to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  to a 500-word limit." Kevin says in his blog that 650 words is okay ... with a Bachelor's and Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies & ... evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

   watermelon and lots more food from Shaws to [seemingly] the ends of the earth in a ... ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... end of IAP, each team gives a presentation in front of a panel of judges

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our ... required to send your official scores as part of your application. Instead, you will be asked to report exams you have taken or plan to take, and we
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  'm that kid who stuck his finger in a candle flame to verify that, yes, fire ... time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she ... School of Mathematics, which looks to be a rigorous afterschool program

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  . College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... starting to think I'd never find the warm live-in community that so many ... people on my floor and finding a really solid community. My interest in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  happens - you try to push the cart in a straight line, but at the slightest ... cart hits a bump in the road and tilts to the left slightly, because that ... ’t actually change the fact that you’re using an easily verifiable benchmark to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... to me in a situation like this-- whether I knew the lyrics or not, my ... , rising in intensity with the song’s melody before they both fell to a lull

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  Hall, and we discretely listened to a college-aged guy use linear algebra ... ’t get off at MIT. I love living in a city, and I love being able to ... Jebby in a shakey Red Line compartment as Sara struggled to start a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  are in tough financial shape and make a good faith effort to inform us ... the word limit. You may choose to send in the essay at a length that ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  are in tough financial shape and make a good faith effort to inform us ... the word limit. You may choose to send in the essay at a length that ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  raise no shame."]to answering lots of questions,[/annotation] even in a ... ? Is there a way to view vector and matrix values at each point in a deep ... Ava's ability to teach these topics to such a broad audience (in person

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  find three programs that allowed me to travel for 1-3 months and I can ... , munching on macarons. The following summer I obtained a PSC Fellowship to spend 3 months working on a portable water project in the small community

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but ... back into the theater just in time to see Simon Powers having a stroke ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... verify this hypothesis, Fatema and I set up a little in-game experiment ... many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  ). My interests in clean tech are pretty broad, so I was fortunate to find ... you get to know  Now I’m in a big city. I don’t go out into Boston as ... writing this at a cafe in Brookline that my friend and I walked to in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  relearning to find meaning in the way I approach things. I put a lot of thought ... lot of classes, all of which sound so interesting. I am trying to find a ... , all in very beautiful ways. I went with Nora to a poetry reading by

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023