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• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  the office computer and watched the replay of the crash. I started to ... . Nothing. I called my stepmother repeatedly, and I reached her on the third ... , my boss, told me I could go home. And wait alone? I discarded the idea

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... down time - and it's a lot simpler than trying to approach the speed of ... , then called the office and was driven the rest of the way by a kind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  , practice problems, notes, etc) available on OCW. If I think of any questions ... :) Based on yesterday alone, I feel safe in saying that the MIT Class of 2014 is AWESOME. Those of you whom I spoke with were funny, nice, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of ... up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I ... nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  mass transfer problem and then go on to the rest of physics. No DDR or ... evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  breathtakingly well written and fun to read. His Ethical Visions of Copyright Law ... ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my ... winners of the Hunt, he and his team created the challenges for this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  doing any of those things once I got here. At the same time, it seemed ... – what I cared the most about. As time went on, I shaved bits and pieces ... put lower on my priority list. On the other hand, I found plenty of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  , Cambridge, and Boston feel like not just home, but a home encouraging me to be ... to see lots and lots of beautiful MIT :D The Hyatt, MacGregor, the ... I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  search for is information. Any information. It will tell you the GDP of any ... want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... "The Home") and all of the students brainstorm potential products that ... graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... :30 on Tuesday and studied until 11:30am. That night, after juggling through all of my other commitments, I studied from 10pm to 2:30am. Then on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying ... , complex and sensitive. They also heavily depend on who’s telling the story ... expeditions in the Rift Valley and my backpack made of authentic leather and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... valleys. Mornings are foggy; nights are cold. On the 4th of July you can drive from town to town up and between the hills and see dozens of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... --the sweetest place on Earth--and having taken the Chocolate World tour ride ... 'd be cool even though I've never even touched (literally) any of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  on their land a lot longer than we have and they can shed a lot of ... dedicated cadre of people at MIT dedicated to changing that perception - and ... about one of the most well-known classes focusing on international

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  . And a part of me wanted to stop writing entirely for a month. I thought ... and am. I'm usually the sort of person to either hold onto a passion so ... in my life, it's been true about my love of education, and, now, it was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  of class (the assignment was to pick any object and sketch it.) We ... and phase difference (between the two pistons) on the work of the engine ... of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  , and so I was several inches short of prepared on the eve of the MIT ... between a chemistry test and a biology test. So at 4:00 PM on the eve of ... Killian on the last day of orientation in order to be photographed and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  reflect on things. If you do any sort of leadership training program, much ... semester and for the rest of IAP. But, especially after reflecting on things ... late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  accomplishments at MIT include being an Emerson Piano Scholar and winner of the MIT ... ! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on ... , at that point, it wasn't really my decision, and there were a lot of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010