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• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  joints. Then, we had to hook up the joints to a user interface to get them ... .youtube.com/watch?v=dDeEmtCrhdc[/embed] Ray Tracing Ray tracing is a technique to render 3D scenes by shooting ... , namely toon shading, outlines, and hatching. Toon shading is a way to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  , involves getting a robot to understand human speech) Machine learning (involves getting a robot to understand a pattern) Soft robotics (designing robots ... technological development, by anyone, is a contribution to what the future looks

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a ... at Bexley (a dorm) when a man called the front desk and demanded to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  credits if you happen to see it. Which isn't a bad idea; you get what you ... think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context ... overshadowed by the question of whether i am entitled to feel sad, whether i have reason enough. it is weird to say that even sadness is a rich feeling

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  are scared and we aren’t sure when things are going to get back to normal again. I was lucky enough to get a housing exception from MIT which ... under a rock for the past few months and only just came out to read my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... laugh, and a “Shannon, you really need to get off the internet.” At MIT ... organization, and we needed his help to keep Voldemort from getting in because

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of ... not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like drinking from a firehose; rest assured, there are times when life at MIT gets

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... time, she’s been one of my role models. The why is a bit tricky to ... that interval, several things were happening to me. High school gets

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  model to show that this solution was feasible, by doing a power ... 12 weeks to create a prototype and present it to a live audience of ... (ex: Fires caused by lithium ion batteries in landfills)? It goes to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South ... ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... indulgence. I read How to Talk to Anyone (a wonderful, wonderful book) when I ... revelatory enough to buy another by the same author (Susan Jeffers) titled

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by ... ...I definitely miss living in a dorm since I was surrounded by so many people, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... 's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely ... small great programs. Anyway, I decided to visit AMS sort of as a way to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I ... different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  actually being "on" the Great Dome, there's a hack mounted to the trench wall ... me. Ever since I got to MIT I've wanted to see a Great Dome hack, but ... I'm a blogger. As a blogger I've been contacted several times by

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... 've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to ... yellow badges, which are to the A.A. Martinos Imaging Center what driver

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... myself to high school Shorna. It’s a very strange relationship I have with ... . And, I mean… there was a lot more to it than that. I was going to live

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019