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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  even I forget this – mostly, in this case, because the grand prize ... eligible to win a prize in the competition. There were three main prizes ... did a little jig (Yes, I do that too) and went winging off to Google to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? When the cartoon "Underdog" was syndicated in the 1980s ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report ... my high school was pretty sweet too, except in a different way, because

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about ... small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  In middle school, my first foray into robotics was with the FIRST Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school ... -ever Cherry Creek High School robotics team when we started in 2013. That's me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  closely mimic the in vivo system. We are currently trying different methods ... Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I ... interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  between classes and the secondary method of communication in ESG. It ... choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most ... Learning Communities were created to allow you to branch out in these classes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings ... believe he was attempting to demonstrate something about tension in field ... drive looked pretty expensive.) *All seven people in attendance during

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... endeavors have included sitting in on Senior Lecturer Anna Kohler ... exhibit. We went to Litchballett (literally, ‘light ballet’ in

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... the few women in the field. At a vendor meeting where engineers were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back ... descent in wikipedia rabbitholes [three cool rabbitholes i found: marathons ... ="HI BRY!!!."]Bry[/annotation], recently told me she bought tickets to run in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz, and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... -3. I have a three-hour time frame in which I can grab and eat lunch

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  what methods I had to do in order to get a certain result. biomedical ... in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... truth in the matter was that I didn't really hate compsci, I just found it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  . James' books on "Living the Simple Life" by involving your kids in ... complimented me on the firm handshake I learned in Chapter 4. And then suddenly ... along in their individual worlds of chaos and delusion like everyone else

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  google ^^;) 5. The Headmaster is charming and has a twinkle in his eyes ... things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like ... corridors in order to get around campus without walking in the rain outside

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  My hope is that in the next p-set and class-filled 48 hours, I eat ... Engineering Fair from my computer and visiting my family in Chicago and in ... joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I ... stuff", but as a cursory Google Scholar search proves, he's been involved in fundamental discoveries on just about any disease you can shake a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  display, but when I googled it I got a different painting as a result. In ... my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... exhibition explores major figures in twentieth-century Europe, from late

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... in the class). Differentiating between the lingo of add, commit, push ... as the class was only three weeks long. The topics, in rough

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... tutor in the class. My tutor was awesome and helped me through the material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014