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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  and almost blew up an oscilloscope on the first day of lab, and now ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... , the only evidence of it being a slight tenderness and a dull throbbing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of ... than 30 countries and includes hundreds of thousands of student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is ... how do you tell the difference? You can't really. It's a lot of feel and ... even through the course of the day. And sometimes even solid swings in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  , I want to rekindle the flames of my romance with MIT, and blogging for ... pronounce my last name. I only know one other person with the same first name as me, and she has the same last name too, so that wouldn't even

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  advice and chat about the UA (see fourth paragraph), of which he was President back in the day. :) First, a trivia question: the name of this blog ... Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  me! Mind you, this was the very first problem set. About a month and ... . For them, the parallel experience of hearing our perspectives and ... out the boundaries of privacy and legality (someone hold me to this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation ... of the sort that vampires, actuaries, and Harvard students live) and ... Massachusetts (the first MIT grad to win that crown), and later competed in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... of the job prospects (or lack thereof) for an English major. And if I ... 's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the ... that characterizes his interpretation of French cuisine. The first dish ... that said, let us dive into the awesome world of food and cooking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  Monday exam[/annotation]at the end of fall semester, and I stayed at home ... recuperating. And I did that, too, in the first couple weeks: slept twelve hours ... to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  that its persons of the year are Bill and Melinda Gates and U2's Bono ... First up, The Economist profiled Professor Gruber's research on ... Executive Director of the Poverty Action Lab. Bono (above) & Banerjee

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  subjected to two hours of torture from us, and the following backlash would be ... aforementioned locations. Jamaica. Florida - and the very tip of it at that. I ... running around in the courtyard screaming at the first sign of flakes. Yes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... [/caption] When I first met them, I did the very American thing of “Hi! My name is ... the pads were on the bottom of the chip and inaccessible from the side

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  colleagues are calculating the limit of sleep as time approaches 3 PM, and I ... 'll eschew the details and save you a paragraph of reading. To compensate, one ... for ATS's first Dim Sum run of the year. Voila! A few t-stops on the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  extent that the founder of the MIT Media Lab and the One Laptop per Child ... and elsewhere, affecting between 5% and 20% of the population. The ... a disorder but a different way of experiencing and understanding the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... and I scoured the entirety of campus that lies between W20 (the Student ... On Wednesday evening, right before the first 8.01 midterm, I had an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  biology."]GIRs[/annotation] out of the way, so this was the first computer ... option to come to campus during the month of January and learn or do ... have a lot of fun with these psets and always know that the TAs will be

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  Cloves and a Chicken. Basically you sear the chicken, cover it in oil, toss ... Alton suggests in his "In the Bulb of the Night" episode, the leftover oil ... this would be way, way easier. No, not the girl who builds robots. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  the Cessnas I was used to. A stick instead of a yoke, and my steering ... You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually ... pin that one of the MIT Flying Club members was wearing... "Whoa, they

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011