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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  ’ve come to think that home for me is not a place, not yet. It is the things ... train for cross country in the off-season. The new house was in a “better ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  right now, but it's been sunny these past few weeks. for the most part ... there, searched for something to set out on for the coming January. And ... -Wide Opportunities in Organic Farming. WWOOF is a work exchange program for organic

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  do a "Web Lab" for 10.302: Transport Processes. What that means is we ... " on a heater, and let it heat up for 20 minutes while the a computer recorded the temperature. Sure, that sounds pretty easy for a lab experiment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  for is the World Cup. And finally, Cambridge is strangely full of Harry ... year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... drinking tea all the time is kind of true. At 11 am everyday, my department

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), which is located just down the road from MIT! I pass this ... antifungal agent that the commercial is promoting is called, Lamisil, and it is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... :00 —  I have a shift guarding the school cannon for an hour, to make sure it doesn’t get stolen. In the darkness, I hear whispering sounds. Is it just

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  weather was a lot nicer for the football game than it was for the parade. I ... resources for academic research but what about the crucial information we need ... and Angelina Jolie order for lunch at an Edmonton eatery? Is a GE air

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009 is over, but you can watch the archived webcast on Facebook ... ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  work I've been doing for the past year and a half. I'll be graduating ... that as a graduation present, they will foot the bill for Adam and me to go on a vacation to the Bahamas (yessss). Adam is less excited about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  asking why MIT didn't accept Marilee's resignation quietly. The answer is ... Hi friends, This story will likely be all over the news soon, so we wanted to write to you as soon as possible. It's a very sad day for MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  information session (yes, the one for the students), then you’ll ... about $40 for the weekend, but whatever). Afterwards, I met up with ... . He was single. The other one decided to stay for CPW, even though he

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  application. For SATs, is the SAT I or II more important? Are SAT IIs after the ... It's been a long time since my last Q&A post - sorry for the delay ... . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... drill press). The main difference is that you can move the part around while the drill bit (actually called an "end mill") is in the part

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  more that we haven't found yet. This is Revenge for yesterday. There was ... . The company is one of the big plusses of a summer research program. On-campus research opportunities abound, but the company is largely the same company

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  student in the program is required to write 3 short entries for the blog ... delicious European food. 8128. Actually, 21F.782 is definitely not the only ... Germany)! The coolest thing about an immersion program is that you are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... for Early Action.   Early action applications on the rise ... determined when the announcement will be made; it usually is about a week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the ... impossible. What also is impossible is the challenge I gave you - there isn ... , 20 is the mathematical limit. I know this because I spent two hours

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  . this is disconcerting for numerous reasons. firstly, i feel like i don ... community before our dorm went offline for renovations. naturally, the ... eerie it is to have gone from being underclassmen to the oldest people at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  - Subreddit The concept is simple, users ask the question "What if x piece of ... Neutrality Net Neutrality is a topic that I've been closely following for a ... lecture has been better than the one before and the world of P vs. NP is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  for her next problem set. She expressed that while the work is tough ... great thing about MIT is the incredible amount of personal choice you are ... , it's not the sheer difficulty of the work that poses a problem for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005