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• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  mom, Eric ‘85 and Mary, raised both of us to have a deep love for ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... time on the team, requiring us to learn how to build a custom gearbox

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  enlightening. This IAP, I was working for a startup named Xobni (http ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the ... of Xobni has been thinking about startups for many years now. His wrote

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  section. The form was designed for applicants in US schools, and often does ... It's time for another Questions Omnibus, where I answer the questions ... to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  read it. Every so often, though, I follow Ben's link to his CC comments ... scheduling so that it was impossible for students to take more than 2 or 3 AP ... of the program is not to pile on pressure for the benefit of a high

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  assignment was probably one of the most challenging for us, but we got ... worked on: Splines Splines are basically curves. For this assignment we ... that could create a skeleton out of spheres (for the joints) and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  , handled some of the larger and more dangerous explosives for us. And, uh ... within a two mile radius and that all of the shop owners had given us ... for some Dim Sum at Chau Chow City, a restaurant that also features

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  component of sphingomyelin, is part of the cellular lipid bilayer. For ... according to b) C-C connectivity and c) C-H connectivity (Y = methyl, E = methylene, I = methine). c) Label each amine, alcohol, and hydrogen by sp3 CC

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do ... generic stores, stood an AMC Movie Theatre opposing an ice cream shop. Just ... . The times when ideas of math let us break past human constraints. Go to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Once a year, a different US city hosts the annual National Poetry ... remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite you to read some of these pointers. They'll set you up well for your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  failing hard and early was essential for us to apply all of our learnings ... For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious ... , and ridiculous amounts of confetti, this event is a must-see for any MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  , 2009 It’s very parents dream... for their child to graduate high ... . Augusta, GA—It’s packing day for 17-year-old Terence Dalbert ... ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  life. Are you hiding something from us?” “I hear it’s really dirty…but I ... ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like it”—because people Like Us don’t actually pursue careers at big banks

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  " - answer email, be attentive to the MIT forum on CC, etc. To me, this is ... immediately. I was wrong (although I am better than last year, for sure). I ... . Anyway, you guys hang in there and try not to worry too much. For those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  tubes for us, so all we had to do was weld 'em together. Simple, yah ... Hi everybody! I was busy this [annotation note="IAP, for y ... , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  , say, "Differential Equations"). CC stands for Concourse, which is a ... four weeks feeds: one person for one semester directions Step 1: Pour ... taking 9 classes, 7 of which are 12 units, for a total of 93 units. This

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  and hope we can find a time that works for both of us. Some of these ... all the surf shops told me that it would be inadvisable for a novice ... figured I would search for a surf shop shielded from the worst of the waves

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  homebase for a few other US study abroad programs. This was taken on January ... taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish ... great job of leading us through thought-provoking discussions about an

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a ... .  Part of the moving-to-Indiana process involved selling my house.  I ... market for $250k.  Not a bad amount of appreciation for 2 years of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  sell us an excellent slice of "chocolate moose cake" (homonym for "chocolate mousse cake") for a mere two dollars. Really, I'm just posting this ... Laura is gonna be taking care of it for a while. It's way too long of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... seeing and doing on campus. They didn’t even register for the weekend officially because we spent a lot of it off-campus in Boston, shopping or

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014