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• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  . as with any piece of writing, there is no obligation to read further if ... . I have good conversations with most of the professors there, which is ... , around 5 PM, I walk over to one of the piano rooms on the 4th floor of the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  streak of a week is getting old). MIT is truly an incredible place to be ...   Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... 's simply a tab on a lever that punches out a precut piece of aluminum. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We ... to make charcoal Read on, grasshopper....   What is charcoal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

   (MIT Sloan School of Management) shared his favorite thing at MIT, which is 15 ... example the three images below. On the right is a photograph of Commodore ... two images of U.S. ships going to Japan below. The image on the left

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  . Click here to see the panoramic I took on top of the mountain. Sorry that ... miraculous act of God, I must have done much better than I thought on the final ... language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... as I love Triscuits, but sleep is one of them. Okay I'm losing focus already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  about 10 hours to complete. If you are on the better end of the CS scale ... back in check. My self esteem is...heavily tied to my skin (for better or ... ="6.009 is Fundamentals of Python. It's usually the second or third

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

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... forward to MIT circa 2003. Bryan arrives on campus. I still danced around ... bioengineering lab, I began to change my perspective on things. I really liked

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... ,[/annotation] a period of time in which lots of undergrads are preparing for or are ... 's helpful to note that a semester is roughly four months, or sixteen weeks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into ... roll on, which also happens to be a catenary. I took 18.022 myself, a ... DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew ... lot of bustling areas and tourist sites in downtown Quebec, which was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  prominent symptom of which is mental retardation) can be shown to have long ... is enough... many labs seem to focus on issues which are interesting to ... sends an electrical signal to its end which causes little packets of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  ) or which have never come close to profitability (doordash loses a few ... , struggling to decide on a fig to pick, while all the figs wither away. it is ... i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  for myself most of the time - I rarely go to the student center or La ... Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of ... meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  .Arch or M.Arch, you then need to complete 3,740 hours (!!!) of on ... Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in ... ] on practices of composition and choreography to create dynamic

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  . Well, several of these things seem to be happening: physics is getting ... as it is now. Getting adjusted to fully in-person life on campus ... of this is a lot. It would be one thing if I just had to handle

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  , because the point of the interview is to get a sense of your side that doesn ... Standing Exams which are proctored in the first week of orientation (18.01 is ... to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  , which is extra financial aid money sent directly to you to cover things ... our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  perfect, there were cool streams of glacier water to splash on your sweaty ... scenario. My brain is constantly screaming in fear of having to make a ... the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high ... is to teach knowledge–which makes a lot of sense and is very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015