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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... user interfaces. We read a couple of papers published in 1990 (!) by ... studies! It’s practically impossible for one person to optimize a UI, but a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on ... altogether. Recently I purchased a bicycle, to help me commute to and from

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  everybody who I have left on read this summer; I promise I'll get back to you eventually."]instead of getting back to the people I need to get back to ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  that you can get to the victim faster, but also mean you need to have A ... killer term and want to spend a big part of your summer relaxing by the ... to get into college. If you don't want to pay $3000 to go to a 6-week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or ... and I decided to repay Ben for all his awesomeness by throwing a mini ... gets a hug too!  I was also hugged, but no one though to take a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  delight when a few weeks ago Greg called excitedly to tell me that my visit ... milled them out of wood, and who were open sourcing their designs to get ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  goal of colonizing Mars.  You can't get to Mars without making a lot of ... A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4 ... means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... these blog entries. I did, perhaps mistakenly, refer to Dr. Hamel as a ... a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  when the audience realized that every single person was about to get a ... dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... writing instructor came up to us. "You guys, have you filed a patent for

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Even though I did get a little discouraged by the knowledge that my ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you

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

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW Prof. Durand: By the way, human color ... most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  requirements of two majors to get a double degree, rather than a simple double ... but I tried to connect with him a bit since I already knew that I was going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  get second place. i also had to do a lot of revising after my first ... [annotation note="jebby & fatima, kai & uzay to name a few ... .  however, this does not stop us from trying to make the claim into a fact

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin ... a much larger problem. How to travel through time! Prof. Fisher: We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  by a kind passerby[/caption] And then met up with more friends to take ... about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and ... a giant party that you get to be the guest of honor at. Soak it in ... whittled down by 90%, a new class decided, and now all sorts of changes are

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... drastically different from high school. You get closer to each other a lot ... towels on fire (courtesy of Tetazoo) getting pelted by a spoonful of cake

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the ... long after I was able to get tickets from one of my fraternity brother

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  . And if you ever want to a chuckle, find a way to get the list of 101 ... one is a concourse Friday Seminar, in which we get to have great ... going on, and I’m still trying to get a deep sense of what this semester

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014