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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk ... how to communicate it effectively.  For this, we went old-school: pencil ... What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  afterward and forgetting how to quite approach it. Getting that practice is ... select a leader. Once you have, leaders, raise your hand” Me: *turns to ... : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  this whole process. But that Saturday morning I was there to learn how to ... workshops on how to use every inch of the college application to communicate ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any possibility that there might be some cons to the pros - to me, MIT was perfect

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  . Questions, answered: 1. thekeri asked how much course 9 relates to psychology ... OCW site, and how much fun it is to do MIT psets. Hey, I've got some ... (read: cheap; there were no cheap tickets from Columbus to Boston last

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  conversations: how to discuss what matters most and relationships are challenging ... how much they love each other)   vii. it can be hard to tell, but ... said they liked me, and i was talking to a friend about how i didn’t want

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  ’ve faced or something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you ... forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  Laboratory - is an architecture project laboratory that explores how to ... ones!) about how to make MIT a more sustainable environment - to large ... as Congress prepares to take up the president's budget, which calls for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  taught me how to magnify images like that at the booth. (not really) I ... ; He'd want to know how my 18.01 test went....   ... I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  through Colón to see how excited everyone was. Here's a view from behind of ... happen. (Don't ask me how I know these things, okay, I'm just trying to ... resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  , I forgot how fun knitting is. It’s so incredibly satisfying to watch ... —it’s discouraging sometimes to see how much the people around me are getting done, how many clubs they’re a part of, or how well they’re able to maintain good

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Dominican Republic. It was our third visit (click here to see last year's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  about the action.” To which I respond, “How clever of you, I was just ... Believe it or not, this is not a post about how the bloggers are grossly underpaid and need your donations (PayPal preferred) to buy space

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  work for at all yet. I guess it's important to actually know how to ask when the next train is coming and how to offer an alten dame some help ... -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will receive with your next big mailing (scheduled to be sent out early May), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing; those words probably don’t make much sense to you, so here’s a short ... -knowledge proof is essentially when you want to prove something about an object

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  about the above scholarship. I would just like to ask your views on how ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  gate at jfk... how i'd missed this[/caption] Now, you have to understand ... ’t think I had a good reason to come as it is that I don’t know how to ... Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  'm far enough from MIT to understand how its pressures affected me, the ways it forced me to grow up, and how to pick a healthier path in the ... Hey, blogs. How ya doing? Long time no see... Or, I guess, write

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016