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  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end. Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and ... false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a message explaining why the portlet is no longer there, but it's not showing

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack 4.301 final project (after reading the comments, I checked things out

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  tutus and the word pirouette, but I haven't even seen [annotation note ... single-file to get on the bus, and on the way out of the classroom I threw up all over the rainbow carpet and had to go home sick for the first

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch ... 's subtitle ("And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon") is completely inappropriate, I will be very impressed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry. Yeah, that was a few days ago. I was distracted by the front desk and its ... Lost, so I've watched almost the entire first two seasons in the last two

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  So. It’s been a while since I last was on the blogs, speed writing ... say so myself. As part of the Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT), I went to the American Solar Challenge (ASC), where our team raced our solar

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96 ... . Far from decorational, the gaudy colors make this softcover the ideal

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  in the heart of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, the icon of ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... less. the project, which Karyn refers to as a "20-channel Frankenstein

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  -Germany Global Teaching Labs Program As I write this post, I am sitting in the teacher's lounge trying to hold onto the comfort that I have grasped to ... delightful high schoolers, and interviewing with a reporter from the newspaper

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof. Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  The MIT Career Fair was last Thursday, when three hundred companies ... . While the fair was specifically tailored to graduating seniors looking for ... way through the maze of prospective employers. Some were looking for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... Favorite thing about MIT: The people. That students and staff are engaged in so ... , the place is remarkably fun and laid-back.Favorite things about Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the ... , offered under the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first time how i'll be quite sad leaving this place when i'm gone. the familiar arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus ... , all Stanford students. There are no clouds in the sky. Ever. The statues ... French sculptors named Rodin. Also, unlike the infinite corridor at MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies ... ventured outside behind Baker House, only to get knocked over by the blizzard

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013