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• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  came, but also partied with us"]generations of alumni[/annotation] come ... [annotation note="our floor shirts, which are bright orange with a bomber plane ... orange 3rd that was filled with 1000 pounds of loose sand and placed in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  the event, providing each floor of the dorm with staple ingredients such ... ) with other vegetarian ingredients Appletizer (meat) - appetizer/entree-like dishes that feature apples (and/or pear) with meat ingredients Apple

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of ... , college students with quirky signs, teenagers in braces, and children with ... stayed that the Boston State House was filled with protestors who demanded

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  Nick Montfort, a CMS professor with whom I took some grad school classes ... e, and that an i with an umlaut (ï) is the same as an i. Other than ...  and William Gillespie with the assistance of an Eraware computer program named Deep Speed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  done with caution during the winter when leaving windows open for a long ... weather isn't bad."]mall[/annotation], stop by a department store with a big ... tester cards. I spray a few cards with a nice perfume and put them into a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  morning presents me with a beautifully quiet campus. I wake up early and ... dinner time, it's fun to share the kitchen with my suitemates, but I love ... wake up. I visualized the data with a stacked bar chart (see code here

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first ... principles, and which unites with habits of close observation and exact ... Warren K. Lewis, a chemical engineer who had been involved with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... . Drop the class! Maybe you registered for like ten classes with the ... is cool with you dropping classes 11 weeks into a 14-week semester. It

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a cloudy morning...but wait, there's more. Do you see what I see? Take a closer look at that sail! Looks to me like a sail with a C on it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests ... ”, which I vehemently disagreed with: In high school, ESFJs are the ... concerned with fashion and their appearance, their social status and the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  . With this award, we will honor work that impacts society in positive ways, and is consistent with a set of key principles, including non ... figures who work with and against institutions that order society. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... Vesuvius, not to be confused with Mount Vesuvius in Italy, is a blend of myth and reality. You have to see it with your own eyes to believe it. This

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT ... - as a Freshman This time I was invited to speak as a student along with ... note: I found a fun little website I'd like to share with everyone. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  experience whatsoever with anything at all. MakeMIT is a hardware hackathon on ... computer science engineers, and other amazing people with amazing talents ... interact with other people who think differently and who do different things

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  guys in the control room screaming with joy. I had just finished up an ... environment brimming with opportunity, I ended up trying more than just ... graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  (more fun with music and friends) keeping adding water and kneading ... make the dough into a few big lumps. put the lumps in a bowl cover with ... cabbage. wash it. chop up the vegetable into fine pieces mix it with the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  started off the semester with basic stuff, like incrementing a number when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  , maybe because a water bill went unpaid or there's a problem with the water ... in a region with "no water" are drinking/washing/living out of ponds ... ’s still “no water” for people to drink, cook, or wash with in many places

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016