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• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs ... ) go to market; they present their products at a huge event before ... course at MIT, and I need no further proof than to note that the class was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  for your enjoyment. 6:30 AM I wake up at an ungodly early hour ... ??"]month[/annotation] since I’ve arrived at the institute. It’s entirely on me for ... learning approach is overkill for the problem and datasets at hand. In the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  way it works is pretty simple: for your first semester at MIT, you get ... ’ve learned after a year at MIT is that the standards for failing are so, so ... For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole ... of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever ... kid, and I heard it again recently at a performance of a bunch of short

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  , our oldest members have only been around for three years. this stands in contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  and statistics class for course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). It ... class (either 9.07 or one of the others) for the major. Honestly, I hate ... 're in a major for which it's required. Also, because they're computer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  I haven’t blogged much at all this year. I remember how happy I was ... much at all. I didn’t have enough time. That’s what this post is about ... doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Hall has a step at the entrance. Don’t trip over it. Tomorrow you should ... recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... , if you’d like. What follows are this CPW’s super-exciting events at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  would most likely fail and all his snowman friends would laugh at him for ... making contact with this molten mess would be quite unfortunate for both ... how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  , and Luck have been around for at least a decade, are mid-sized teams ... it makes a Google Sheet, from a template, in a Google Drive for each ... . It was unlocked at around 2 PM, and people worked on it for six hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar ... classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... was at 10am on Saturday. I showed up at 9:40 (we're supposed to arrive

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  at MIT are just like finals anywhere else, cumulative and difficult ... yourself in a nice room and do nothing but work. That's my plan for the day, studying 2.001 for my final on Tuesday. For that final we get 4 pages of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  the legendary Debbie Douglas, director of collections at the MIT Museum: Furthermore, Douglas wrote, at the time there was an “existential issue ... now, at last, to the knowledge that our rich and prosperous nation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  to see for herself that there was always something going on at MIT ... MIT as the PWI. It felt there was a place for her at MIT and that she ... ambassador. WISE stands for Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering, and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... undergraduate research, also what this happens to be about."]UROP[/annotation] at some point, and January is just too dark and depressing for me not to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... Independent Living Groups)--a decent attempt at trying to understand what living there would be like. REX is already in full swing at Random, and this is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  , since my last post about my time in California for LiveScribe, I've flown ... see MIT for the first time as a real place and not just a picture in a brochure or a website (or Google Street View if you're really obsessed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for club meetings, having dinner at my fraternity, playing Brawl, and ... occasions I've made bad decisions solely of my own accord; at other times, it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  plethora of signs and murals. The best part, for me at least, is knowing that ... 's relatively well known that, in addition to MIT's fervent love for STEM and wacky architecture, there's a large presence of dorm culture at MIT. In

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  following a grad student around an evolution lab at U Chicago for a summer. I ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017