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• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo ... member from both the UCSF and Berkeley campuses. The rest of the time is spent with walking around the campus and the city to get an idea of who

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  huge fan of joy's work ever since i read her blog post on inclusive ... had the distinct privilege of chatting with her last week and we had a ... * * * * * some snippets: (on algorithmic bias) (and how facial recognition

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of ... Boston on Fridays and Saturdays. You can get pounds and pounds of produce ... a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  , especially since the professor wrote “Yes, it’s ICE” on the top of the board on ... , think of water and oil) and a second column, only this one is nonreactive. Along the way, the pressure is manipulated by valves and pumps of various

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  it to us and also demonstrate the effects of EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on blood, he drew blood from the head TA in front of the ... . Today, in lecture, we learned about epinephrine. And of course, what would

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  . Some folks acted quickly to make Matt and me aware of it, as well as ... . These actions were heroic and I am so proud of you guys. People have been ... DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... probably one of the more epic things we’d done in a while, and proceed to ... lifting though (mainly, me just lifting it and making the two of them feel

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... from seeing a 100% on a tricky part of a MicroQuiz is unparalleled. The ... each took a substantial amount of diligence and problem-solving. 6

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  advantage of running around the Charles River (and all the public water ... MIT summer camps and programs It's time for those of you who might ... expect you to blog at least once every two weeks and create other kinds of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon ... . - On the flipside, said e-book reader will be so convenient and I know I ... Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of ... site layouts and she was given the freedom to size the elements of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  the available hosts, and ultimately we were happy with all of the ... good part of this week matching MIT student hosts with prefrosh [prefrosh ... (I know that one night, Salvador left around midnight, and I rarely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  the locations and times of the events listed below. Saturday &bull ... and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to ... the class of 2019. If there’s an event in your area, you should

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  work and in what I'm capable of. And maybe one of these days I can ... place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... light outside was grey and a bit yellow and when it deepened to blue I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  freshmen were working on problem sets, and I volunteered to help some people on their math homework. (8 pm) I went to sleep at 4 am, and I still ... , Libraries Week, and MISTI Week. Knowing that this week would be packed with

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  Mauritius (Geraldine), and of course to meet many of the parents, too (hi ... photos... Jenna, Elisabeth, and Nelson The crew of Katharine, LBizzle ... I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  playing this game around a decade ago, and picked it up again because of ... 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

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

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you ... MIT account to find out the name of your EC, and to schedule the interview ... and ECs don't have a fixed set of questions you must answer. Basically

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of ... econ PhD programs go on to research/teach as professors or employees of a ... trading, and research. I have never worked at one of these jobs, but from

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  that every Wednesday, we'd bring in our compositions and get to work on ... on a beach and a septuplet-filled "paranoid" take on Robert Frost ... the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006