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• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  after long deliberations and email exchanges with the transfer credit examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... . firstly, people mostly take classes in only their own major. i had the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made ... kick out the people in control. Are we buying into this? I am a very old person here. In fact, I am 35 years old, almost two times the age when I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had the same format: the autonomous stage and the driving stage. The driving stage is what it sounds like: you drive the robot around the arena

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at MIT and Harvard. I say this both because it beautifully expands the ... . I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... plain sad. Anyway, three full weeks of the Spring Semester have sped away

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  , I went against my instincts and proceeded toward the signs. I would later find out I had headed in the wrong direction. An hour later, I would ... trains and missing signs. I was at the Alewife T-Station, which comprised a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  and Sense-abilities (the neuroscience behind the five senses) HSSP ... ): The Evolution of Our Scientific Answers to Seven Fundamental Questions MIT is not the only school with Splashes. It does have the biggest

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  The MIT Marching Band, completely arbitrarily, decided to go out ... 10 and Killian Court. No, really. Our audience included the Stata Center, countless Biology graduate students in buildings 56 and 68, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or ... was still called TheFacebook - this was a better time, a time when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  As part of the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a ... half, Ms. Smith taught us the Top Ten Tips for Painless Networking, which ... yourself that might help jumpstart the conversation. Make sure the tagline is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of ... -year classes. :-) Here are the contenders: 6-001 room 6-001, Building 6 ... interesting basement tidbits. :-) Here, we enter Building 18 and observe the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  Up until last Thursday, my only on-air experience was the one time I ... my season pass the first day I had it; I just never asked to go back ... WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter ... supported the education of physics at MIT in a myriad of ways. From developing the TEAL structure of the 8.01 (Classical Mechanics) and 8

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  , running among the children, the buffalo, the haulers. This field was just the start of one of the most curious experiences I have probably ever ... explain the configuration. Bear with me, but my Paint skills are not superb

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... (Urban Planning) ’12 is blogging from Cambodia, where the D-Lab team ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I just had was to write something along these lines and send it to the CEO ... ridden on an airplane? During the Holiday Season? Without your Super

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice ... just give me the facts in lecture and challenges in the homework, but an ... fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... because of the MITOC (MIT Outing Club) mailing list and other email announcements for free activities. Over Memorial Day weekend, we met the Boston 1

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible ... feel the week or two before term are the best weeks all year, due to the abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... . From the website:  In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150 ... engineering experience.   The effort spans the early phases of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016