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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... of the MIT iGEM team. What is iGEM, you may wonder: “The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation is dedicated to education and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  English to Spanish 15,16, 17 is as valid of a solution as quince ... from a handful of lessons, allowing me to spam it on repeat without ... the limited amount of vocabulary the Italian XPRUC comes to test me on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same ... list of options to choose from for our final project. I chose ... blurring effects, while Poisson image editing is a method of automatically

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... interact with regularly, so this is really only a snapshot of the diverse

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  the launch vehicle. The strength of the fin can is essential to a stable ... /LOX engine ready for hot-fire, and is currently working on the design of a ... -get-out-what-you-put-into-it’ kind of experience. This is nice because it means you don’t have to take

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  is put on the system causing it to flip over and drift upwards. My ... the rudders [which I drew onto the sheet metal and is now on the robots ... what’s so special back there. Probably alcohol. Or pictures of boobies on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  'll be well on your way. 4) Find things to do in small blocks of time. Did ... psetted, whilst having plenty of time for movie-thons and Guitar Hero on a ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  am supposed to define myself now?" On the other side of the phone, my ... , I transferred from my local public school of 800+ students to a ... lot of students enter as the "science kid" or some other variation only

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  wondering what my brother wrote on his Flat Ryan, it says "Cinco" which is his ... laughing because he was laughing!") 4. You get to tell these kinds of stories ... who get flattened and gets travel to a bunch of different places via

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  on their kid taking all the classes he or she wants to take (trust me ... sort of like having to do one research project per week, which was very ... from the semester on the projector, and assigned one pair of kids to each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  ? The answer to all of these questions is yes. Does MIT have a football ... , members of the MIT Varsity Football Team have gone on to such accolades as ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  think the reality of the situation is that I won't be able to hold on to ... various interests of mine, if I'll find a career that is somehow able to ... ." Which is true. As obnoxious as this is going to sound, I never really saw

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and ... bringing them to life is infinitely fulfilling and I feel like such an adult

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  has to be perfect. Sure, quality beats quantity, but the quality of your writing is like a probability distribution, and writing more gives better ... early, write often, and prepare to throw most of your ideas away

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  _IF_IT_WAS_WORKING_AND_IT_DOES_NOT.txt file. Which yeah, same. First Law of Coding: If the answer isn’t on ... spent a ton of time listening to hip-hop on the radio because that’s the ... Hello, my name is Taylor. I’m still alive, although my lack of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... crystalizaiton is very important to achieving different forms of chocolate. The

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  the final "submit" button of your online application on or before ... mail your materials on or before January 1. However, I strongly ... appear on your Application Tracking. Our records office is fully staffed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  dedicated to Facebook, which is probably the reasons I get less sleep than I ... course). On top of arranging their own renditions of famous artists songs ... What happens when you pack hundreds of students armed with paper

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can ... loosely based on Taming of the Shrew. I remember the school most from the final scene, the one with (Boston's own!) Letters to Cleo playing on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004