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  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of-the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a community member. Here I'll take the perspective of a critic, or perhaps a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class ... vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... teenager again. I feel like I should have learned something about the world by now, because suddenly all the questions I am asking myself have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  MIT students who stay in the Boston area over the summer, there are ... East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other ... programs for high school students). This is the worst option, in my opinion

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up on Hamsika's blog about the Boston Globe special feature on MIT and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of my math major. (The second one, which I’m taking this semester, is 18.424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY, and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class ... the audience. Then again, most class presentations don’t involve ... half million dollars. Under the tutelage of Professor David Wallace

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  Over the last few weeks I've posted entries about diversity vs merit and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... from my friend Wally, via my friend Lisa, about photo stills from the ... , a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear. One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab, debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  , especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by ... all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... drizzly and dreary in Cambridge. Our ceremony started at 4 PM, and the sun

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007