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• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar ... * because i feel pretty much the same way... 0.o ... I keep reading about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major ... after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech aggregators instantly pounced on and reblogged. His own blog (incidentally, a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  focusing on the play, but the work is certainly there. For those of you who ... , or am some sort of walking good-luck charm, believe me when I say that ... of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  , mostly because introducing myself is way harder than I thought it would be ... the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... that you can describe yourself in terms of probabilities. If my electrons

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... 'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... ways, MIT really is just another place with many of its own unique

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's a good visual example of something like this. maybe the closest is ... collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... "ungestalt" are two sides of the coin, depending on whether you think the form

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  and ways of life. There is also focus on Black women and queer ... ="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive ... Modernity. It’s a class focused on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Brazilian

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Blizzard Barbecuing A few feet of snow never hurt anyone

  

  Yesterday Spanish House celebrated Boston's record breaking snow fall with the WTF(Winter Time Fun) Barbecue! Who says a few feet of snow signals the end of outdoor activites. Photo Credit to Hollie O. '15

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental concepts with approaches of process design. Emphasis on problems that demand ... the rest of your time to work on the project. Unfortunately, because my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now ... hand and Fire Viper on the right hand--it's way better than a Fireball ... --the Maillard Reaction! Anyway, I really liked this review of a skillet on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  with her on an area of weakness; Mrs. Oliver, because I loved those ... focus on things you can control. As someone who now writes a lot of ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of ... . (Note that I'm only playing games that work on Linux, but if it works on ... building a CPU out of simple components. It's not for everyone, but if you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  living on the third floor of the [annotation note="East Campus is a dorm ... six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  students arrive on the day of the competition, they will be assigned to small ... to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10 ... 's equations. 2:45 - 3:30 PM: Chilling on the 2nd floor of the student center ... As promised, a detailed recount of Bryan's Wednesday. 7:45 AM: Alarm

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  disciplines (scientific research, civil rights, freedom of speech, human rights ... are to build awareness and support of disobedience-robust work being ... . With this award, we will honor work that impacts society in positive ways

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Feebleness of Gravity, and the Physics 2004 Nobel Colloquium on MIT World. ... of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005