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• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  enough to do it on your own. Since this class, I have been trying to make ... ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... , with padding around the bar-rope joints to protect your joints. The only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer ... wonderful way to take my MIT journey above and beyond! Living and working in Germany was a perfect opportunity to jump into a different comfort zone

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... need to get it through the limited working/short-term memory. There, we ... , according to Prof Mahajan, the rule of thumb is: if you get a quadratic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but ... Project in its scope and usefulness, and I feel honored to be working on it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... hips to the hokey-pokey. (he doesn't know this video is on the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  , every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I ... , one of the country’s larger news websites. Then it was refusal to renew ... party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  (especially if you're new to the site - hi, new people!). So I've spent the past ... the left side of each page. So if you're checking out the page on ... means to them. All the entries on these blogs are good. But time is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  -Madison. *Having a five-year-old sister, I get to see for myself, from a new ... class, taking a break to walk along the Charles with a new-ish friend ... New Hampshire with MIT Outing Club, listened to bluegrass at the Fresh

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  , you add me to your list of friends on Thefacebook ;) Your important ... check the MIT directory to get a preliminary idea. If your first name or ... . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  't always have time to get proper treatment and have to nurse it on my own ... training on my own is that I get to form my own schedule. I'm not tied to a 5 ... Sectionals. I love to compete, and its what drives me through hell weeks on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  materials. You have a whole toolbox of reactions to use. If you're able to ... trail your way back to the beginning. It makes the solution significantly less complicated to get to.   There's More Than One Answer Now

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... on their website. See for yourself. BWAAAAA!! And yeah, graduation was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  'll get back in Boston on Saturday morning, just in time to catch the final ... to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... this trip to a) explain why I might be uncharacteristically quiet on the

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

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  sometimes you get little pictures throughout your recipe to check to make sure ... -Fun-Times (although I’m working on getting that changed). Let me preface this story ... very much like writing a good recipe: you have to list your ingredients

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  here. When you stroll down the Infinite on your way to class with a ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  , and had to get back to school) (through this cool library network we ... to get through all 10 this time. So far, I have... Nonfiction: The ... , whether it’s a new one or an old one or that one you keep meaning to start

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... Tube! So if you're bored, and you want to screw around with something kinda

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  A new episode of MIT's video podcast, Zigzag, is now available. It includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story ... alternately hosted by Marsha Bolton from the President's Office and myself. To

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... -- but I cry a little bit anyway when I mention it on the phone to my ... opposed to the crucible, the furnace where you gather new glass. Yes, it

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

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . But on the contrary, everyone spoke to me the same way they spoke to ... get from talking to them when you know, without either of you actually ... ’t always have to be that extreme. I get the sense that people here do see me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015