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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  present have done for us! Also *virtual hugs* for being our audience! It ... like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our ... – the day of the first counselor meeting to prepare for FAP. We walk into

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  how they worked and made a design for new “wings” to add to the robot ... time spent in the murky depths. Read on to see how things turned out for ... --they gave an ipad to a monkey to see how well it could play games. And then

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  admissions process. You don’t need to look for information anywhere else. The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... a slightly less fancy version of my college essays). Anyway, back to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... student here, learning how to think is still the most important thing anyone ... characteristic. What sort of experiment would you design to find out Y?" For an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  enough to meet the standards for a contortion class. No matter how I ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with ... how to fix it. Anyway, that tire swing inspired me to get back to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... it was a little birthday present to myself >:)   2 occasions ... -traveled already. We had to awkwardly drag that suitcase around for the next week

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  ? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral ... calculation— “net present value”—has come to guide modern thinking about the ... Lightning Talks" for our admitted students and parents. Nine faculty members

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  motivation for my project was to test if we could quickly prototype an API (a ... .) Step 3: Converting the human input to code For this part, I used ... ?" and "How do I bake a cake?" to all translate into "recipe(cake)" as well

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need ... three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present ... capacity for deceit while hooked up to a polygraph, human dog sledding

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... used to create cylindrical parts, for example a pin that needs a groove ... department and caters to people doing cool stuff for fun rather than official

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  , Blow the Man Down, [annotation note="Lore I have to share: The story for ... “Shanty” began to refer to any song about the ocean, which is sort of how ... waited until night on 6/1 to ask for permission).   Final Words

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  enrolled at MIT. So for all of you who are looking to merge your talents in the arts with your passion for all things techie, look no further, you ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a ... current students at MIT! <3 it!!!! Click the links to find out about ... Mensah. What was even MORE impressive for me was that all three had videos

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and slowly “pruned” (idk how else to describe it). Here, potters can add ... essentially allows you to see how well you did–if your walls are even, if the ... ] My second goal was to make some bowls! The steps for a bowl versus a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  presented to the US Department of Energy by our professor. How bad can that be ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... for a class. I feel so smart just being in a class with that name, to be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . She’s had to live with the mess for the past month). But last night, as ... . Winter break as officially started for me, so life is pretty good right now. But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my ... Delhi and Agra, we headed to the host university, living in dorms for a ... ="https://catmario.eu/"]Cat Mario[/annotation], I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  convince me of how easy it was to cross-register, since she had a pretty good ... registering for normal MIT classes - you have a separate form that needs to be ... you can punt your 7.03 p-set all day to code a wiki for Burton 1, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will ... presentation.” (2.ThA website) Some people choose to begin their research in the ... and looking for trends in their mineralogy that could lead to a better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008