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• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  This semester I built a Tamagotchi: a 2000s toy where the user takes care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the ... ="aligncenter" width="280"] this is what the original Tamagotchi toy looks like

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let's back up a moment. The (Loose) History/Background In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  wow and dazzle them on stage. This year was the first time that I had ... , but I was excited because the headliner was Shin Lim, a Boston ... on this later. Anyway, it just so happened that the banquet coincided

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here's the first "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  Francisco (hiding from the bitter Boston cold...hehe), after a long semester ... mega-sale, so it cost like $15 =p...by the way I'm such good friends with ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from ... and dusted with cayenne pepper. The first time I slivered the crisp pink ... sleekly each succulent slice melted into pulpy, fibery bliss. The symphonic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare ... Exam” on Friday morning, my challenger played the familiar “Long, Hideous ... card. Equipped with foresight and past experience, I pulled out the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 years ago- but the website has thankfully undergone a dramatic improvement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from San Diego to Los Angeles, Flight 264 from LAX to Logan Airport, and the fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  checking the IAP events schedule pretty regularly, but unfortunately, most of the events that I find interesting take place during my Italian class or work hours. But today I was finally able to attend one of the seminars I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Music Man is my least favorite musical ever. The ... 's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." Ahhh, New York City, winning the ... THE WHALE! Nice weekend. More later. Okay, more. So, for words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades ... a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have ... on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  MIT had a football game this afternoon against Worcester State. The final score was 49-6. It's apparently the worst loss in over 15 years. It was also my first football game as a member of the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  'll get sucked into the ridiculous whirlwind that is this school. I'll get busy with classes, and clubs, and grabbing lunch at the stud with friends. So before that happens, and before the feeling of summer slips away

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  - sapporo cambridge" /] you walk into h-mart and see the paris baguette cafe ... screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... donkatsu today? nope. you've decided to give all the ramen places you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  class I took last semester. Reading the literature and interviewing people ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research ... undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  Michael Plasmeier, aka The Plaz, is a junior at MIT studying Course 6 (or EECS). His website - ThePlaz.com - also has a wiki, and on this wiki ... the Class of 2015 Facebook Group and liked very much is called Learning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  detail like I usually do in my blog entries; rather, I'll just discuss the most interesting events and you can fill in the rest with your overactive imagination. I awoke with a jerk. Finding that the weather report was calling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ... the [annotation note="This means both prospective first-year and ... sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020