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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here's the first ... awesome shop guys (particularly Bill and Tasker). I built my first gearbox and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... FUN jokes and written them on my whiteboard, I have learned facts and ... teacher in high school, and your passion for physics has nudged and

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

   (an all-male a cappella group), and still keep up with the group as a ... /directed/edited/produced the entire thing themselves, and did it all in 2 weeks from concept to ... their hands and let life happen to them - they're going to want to go out

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  (and occasionally even current students) saying basically the same thing ... lately, and it's got me thinking about incredible people and what it is in them that makes them incredible. And the surprising conclusion I've come

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big ... and a police officer directing the flow of lunchtime walkers as a young ... Kim, Kelly Shaw, and Travis Williams, all graduate students in

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  - it’s actually because I’ve been doing architecture stuff and that ... ’t made any profound life discoveries. Just surrendering hours and hours and hours to various software and machines and spray paint and glue...and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  travel all over the country (and the world) here at MIT Admissions. And during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in ... , or hold a big meeting in every city. And not every student interested

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... tomorrow is October 31: Halloween. And the next day is November 1: the MIT ... those questions, and to provide a bit of advice as well. Please be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you ... and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually ... new material between the last test and the final), meaning I had an 18

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  program which teaches sophomores about leadership and work-place dynamics, I attended an etiquette seminar taught by Jodi Smith last week. For an hour and ... nametag and wear it on your right side. When you shake someone's hand, you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  bimbos who spend all day having pillow fights and braiding each other ... popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just ... standards, community service, and character and leadership development

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made ... DNA would be about the size of a ping pong ball and the air in the beach ... incorporated into the cell, the sphere degrades, releases the DNA, and then the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to painful cramping, chronic diarrhea, and reduced appetite. As if the symptoms weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... morning starts with 9.26 Principles and Applications of Genetic Engineering for Biotechnology and Neuroscience, 10am-1pm. Next up is 9.24 Disorders

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  , counting down seconds until the next class, and over and over again. I ... , and erase it all immediately after. Then I got here. I’ve quickly ... . They want you to apply your knowledge to problems that take hours and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... child he saw a priest make that hand gesture to a congregation, and was so ... themed concert by the Boston Pops orchestra. He sat on stage and told us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... option is not mutually exclusive with (1), (2), or (3)] (2) and (3) are ... desirable, since you've been trying for hours already and can tell that you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  've lived (my stepdad and stepbrother have, but not the rest of us), like some people do, with many generations living in the same place and it becoming a part of one's identity. I love my neighborhood back in Kentucky, and its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... weather machine, and even got a very melty dusting a couple days ago ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024