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• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  mental space working on the loft! And to be honest, it was really hard. Of ... 't see coming or be able to fix, and another night of falling into bed ... week of school. But hey! I did build that loft! And she is BEAUTIFUL

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... passage of time is terrifying. Anyway, I'm off to purchase more red socks ... of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on ... ) is the amount of dedication they put to everything that they do, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  entirely on the time I had to find a way out of that F. And the admissions ... I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I'm not one of ... than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  be because of the sertraline. or both, or neither, and the thing is ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  Final Presentation. Everything you need to know lives on this site ... rest of the semester. It was tough: missing out on presenting tonight ... was the right decision for my recovery. The good news is, I am on track

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... House alums or residents. This means that a little over 20% of the cast is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  , depending on traffic, to sit in the basement of a Sloan building. (Sloan is ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of ... , to which I responded with some hesitation (to be exact, a few months of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  cool when your professor is someone who created or worked on those ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  mass transfer problem and then go on to the rest of physics. No DDR or ... Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for ... - this is where we get paired to our "big" as in "big sister" (sophomore or

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  of you probably know what it's like to work on large projects like ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper ... toy. The sketch model on the left was our works-like model which tested

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  something up on the day of the test. I thought I was going to forget a ... campus which attests to the fact that there is literally so much that can ... never going to end. It seemed like all my midterms were clustering on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  , thanks to Murphy’s law, which states: On any form of public transportation ... . The cheapest hot item is a Cup of Noodles, which is free at MIT if you ... , only exists on the verge of its own disappearing.” And while I want to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  competition is always going to exist whether you conform to it or not. And yes ... commitments. It IS kind of hard to deal with balancing your activities ... as well). I'm taking the EMT class, which is not only an amazing deal

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your ... on your phone like ripping off a bandaid, maybe you want to be on a ... couple deep breaths—of outside air if you can, whether it's crisp or muggy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  researcher (or more likely, a group of researchers) behind the finding. Granted ... . Beyond that, I knew next to zilch. This is why I got excited when I ran ... .” He was looking for funding to start OpenLabWare, which he explained

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  role model and still is to this day. Working in my lab gave me a sense of ... student, which means I'm learning to negotiate the challenges of workplace ... frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  which is in one of the entries (would any MacGregorites care to clarify ... goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every ... a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to ... horizontal or vertical slashes. Feeling rebellious, and wanting to amuse myself

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023