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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  offered every 2 weeks. The class is actually pretty cool- you learn how to ... efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts ... .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... : palm trees, iguanas, piña coladas. To me, they were nothing but pathetic ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  is really fun to revisit them with him. we have learned how to say ... generally measure my mental health by how often I remember to take care of my ... each wing has multiple lounges, where people come to hang out and study

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  transcripts, and most people had little to worry about no matter how unprepared ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  changes from home to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last ... how conservative), and you’re all ready to GO. It feels like the "right ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  next time. I learned some basic things, like how to burn the ends of ropes so that they do not fray, and how to operate a mill. I also learned ... ’t sure how to fix them. Each time, I wasted a good bit of time before

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... me with open arms for a hug. He began to sob, telling me how he had ... nonsense about how Johnny's influence over him would help him to be one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  discussion around gentrification in the city and how to approach the city ... important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  research. More than ever, we need to understand how science, technology, and ... have power to alter societal ethics, and stated that the College of ... , was held to address the ethical implications of research done at MIT

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  . They don't want to hear about how awesome their student is. They KNOW how ... although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  at this video. Nobody knows how to operate this thing because the ... blogger, coder, gamer, and web designer (rather, I try to be). I came from distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... preference. So it partly referred to the school and partly referred to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... thought I was bright and I would be able to learn, so that's how I got my ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  beautifully how to analyze everything, but says that analysis is only a tool ... they died. He says that teachers must educate their students on how to ... inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in ... ..."]YOLO."[/annotation] The Poems That Taught Me How to Love about Pablo Neruda's poetry ... to hang in my room for the fall! how-to-dormspam. probably for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  didn't even know how to cross streets in the city, let alone how to tell if I was in mortal peril or not. I still don't really know how to tell ... -looking fiance. And at least I have learned how to cross busy streets: if the light

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... learned how to take the glass back off the end of the pipe when you're done ... how to actually blow glass. When we were making paperweights, we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  as the most relevant to how I’m feeling.   i found myself ... have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do ... about how to address certain longstanding dynamics in the house that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  To set the mood: Beethoven Symphony no 7 - II  🎵 Take 1: Keep Calm ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... FPOP. We caught up for a bit, reminisced about how quickly time has flown

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021