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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had ... all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of ... ”, 2)] After we submitted the lab, we thought about the power of this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  on some kind of maturation pedestal - and it is worthy of the hype I ... unjaded by the responsibilities and consequences of adult life. As much as ... the top of my list. Expectations of parents. What a struggle. Given MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per ... number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... ), and it's one of the true ones. Looking around just my floor, I see Vicki ... trips to caves on the weekends. As another example, there are loads of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the ... poems or lyrics.  The other class, 21L.430, is Popular Narratives of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... 't so obviously useful - but is probably one of the most special classes I ... signed up for the latter along with half of MIT, because how could anyone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  's Last Stand.  The Battle of the Alamo.  That one time those buff Spartan ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the only person keeping this world in balance.  He's kind of like the Avatar

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  of the things that seem the most puntable are the things that make me ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and ... from a distance. Here’s one of the stories my parents tell about the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  essentially the lovechild of an etch-a-sketch and a drill press. Using two dials ... , cutting grooves, notches, and all sorts of neat shapes into it. The "CNC ... the top of the dome, because I'm pretty sure there are some. I also put

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... shot clinic was one of the coolest things I’ve seen since I got here, and ... . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  the beginning of the summer, because he was helping me move into my ... of a problem (problem as in problem set, not personal problem). And the ... preview of the finished project, or at least the project as it is now. We

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... chill on the fifth floor. Skullhouse is five stories and from one of the ... large amount of smoke coming from behind one of the buildings. Not sure of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and the Geek, one of our very own MIT alums, is on the show. After LSC's premiere of the show in 10-250, Ankur '04, shared some of his thoughts and

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate ... than one adapts. So with that out of the way, I have some actual comp

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll ... . Get the inside scoop before it hits the pages of "Wired." TechTV: Did

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... stare at part b. Inductance is nothing more than the result of geometry, I ... me, so I turned into our unofficial photographer of the evening as we

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime ... until a few days after the holiday. Please do not send multiple copies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery ... lots of puzzles (which lead to more puzzles), with the ultimate goal of ... team is the honor of writing the next year's Hunt. For some history

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  boils again, then add a splash of cold water to stop the boiling wait until the water boils again, then add a splash of cold water to stop the boiling wait until the water boils again, then add a splash of cold water

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016