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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  algorithm that makes the Kinect work, and based on the frequency with which ... user’s body. It does this in real time and can handle multiple users. The ... discusses the history and culture of Africa, focusing on countries where

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  still get death threats often So their meaning starts to soften and on the ... , and all the people who used to live in floorpi. almost everyone on the ... can count on one hand the people who live on floorpi, who also lived

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and ... mnemonic that the class taught: "b," on the left, is for bread, and "d," for ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  carnivorous appetite. 1:00 PM I've gained entrance to the club, and can ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  perspective on the world, and when he got his first bad grade at MIT, he knew ... . Ultimately, his impact on MIT and the students around him was great, and his ... I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  minutes into trying). BUT, on the plus side, it was very fun, and microwave ... gotten, but I clicked on the link and thought that it looked like a good ... and looking at the pretty leaves, love MIT's fall-themed events, love

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  'll spare the gory details. Suffice to say, the warm and copious food on the ... on (one of the other volunteers christened me Reggie). I can imagine ... notifier turned blue and I felt a little butterfly as the page loaded. Could

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  if you can, silly! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a ... that you can compare on the trip home. Remember, if you ask your parents ... glance at the material once, then place it all by the curb to be recycled

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat ... out the Lagrangian Formulation (on an introductory E&M exam!) and ... Exam” on Friday morning, my challenger played the familiar “Long, Hideous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  , MIT is awesome at pistol, and the range is on campus, why not join? I ... It's 11:42 am Eastern time and I'm packing my bags. ¿Porque? The MIT ... e-mail the coach (you can find him here: http

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  are going to be on the job market in the next six months, we encourage ... wood helps the planet. Also, making useful things out of bamboo can be a ... poor people in Africa, it's not like being published is really in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  day, so i head on over to the green building and head up [annotation ... ." "So... let's say you did average on the quiz, and you're doing pretty ... café in lobby 7 used to be peets coffee, and they had the mocha javiva

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  means I'm on my way home to spend the holidays with family and friends. It'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm ... fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... was basic knowledge on differentiation and integration. I did some self ... being chose the best possible conditions for the world to exist as we know

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  Cycle of targets, and there can't be any loops: in other words, the hunter ... two bandanas, one on each side of their body. the bandanas have to be ... ': times or areas where you're safe, and can't be killed. (these include

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... can actually be too early to check your bags (boo) Sit at the entrance ... I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  week passes so quickly, and the weekend is over in a flash. I don't know ... , and distracted from a bald spot in the greenery by sticking on a picture ... over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  from the situation and moving on. After high school, I felt like I had ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... at is English. Being good at failing means not being phased by it, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  can learn it, and that the best way to learn it is to do it without ... of real-life things. Being on the Design/Build/Fly team gets me access ... thought--follow the instructions on the bag), and fry eggs (especially

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  Sunday night, and I feel as though I've spent the last forty-eight hours ... Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell and "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin ... myself up-to-date on goings-on outside the world of MIT - What? The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010