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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  resolution to start reading a novel, a resolution that lasted just about until ... getting myself to write a novel than read one. Which brings me to the next ... originally drawn for the awesome Aquil Fannis.  But I decided to take a break

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  since my mad biology skills weren’t quite up to engineering a couple of ... mechanics unit we’d briefly covered to design a raft that would support my ... Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  machine suitable for a server, with delivery to my dorm, for a mere $10 ... musical prowess to a wide audience, so I donned my corridor gear and ... acted as a prop to distract onlookers. (Thanks to Hannah for the photos

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat ... everything I want into a cheat sheet, I have to get my handwriting down to ... a learning instrument in classes are there to encourage students to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn ... eighteen, but really more of a prelude to twenty. A pause and a period of ... to zoom and watch a physics lecture, and she invited all my friends to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... that being a blogger obligates me to be, of course took pictures. There ... have a little alcove that is home to a laser cutter and a 3D printer (I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  question. However, I did make a trip to the [annotation note="Alan: more on ... of around twenty questions, and, after a few months, managed to get ... ="Alan: also Cameron gets a special shoutout because she went to my high school

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a ... everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me: Yea, I know that. She's an MIT professor. Friend: No, she's a GENIUS. Me

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  ) converge on a key research problem to focus on and make progress on it (focus ... friends and I with a few takes and ideas try to make something happen, in ML ... confident to face the world, knowing my strengths and weaknesses a bit better

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  provide models of the human brain, but it takes a human to apply facts about ... are able make inferences from facts. Wayne Gretzky, a famous hockey ... , outsource training to machines, and use our time to start mentoring—a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  -insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... have to toss a ball around or [annotation note="I actually have a note ... -so-secret artistic talent that can be celebrated"]Nobody is going to do a great job

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... building detectors designed to make sense of radio light, x-ray light ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... went from tiptoeing around a lighter to loving fire with a passion just ... ? Yep. We don’t have a magic coating that makes us fireproof, which means

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  through the Kresge BBQ pits on my way to Burton Connor. Grab a hamburger to ... an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the ... , devouring, legs wide apart, like a ravening Neanderthal, across campus back to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  I can, and I need to accept that and find a way to make it work long-term. ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... you just called your friend a wuss. Now add "ter" to the end. Wuss ... . Snively Advice Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Don't sound like a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  planned to go on a campus tour (which started every half hour), but missed ... , not used ones). W/ such great availability, there shouldn't be a need to ... apparently, many of the prefrosh are early risers. We had to wait a long time

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  talking to is me"). I might be turning into a linguistics nut, but I find ... ," which I think is a much better expression. Now I can just switch to ... "desafortunadamente," which means "unfortunately." This one makes a bit more sense

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so ... ’s hard anywhere to achieve your dreams. It’s going to be a tough ... archives to the posts from mid-December. There's a post every year for EA

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... 1: Hide and Seek Rules You are the player. You choose a place to hide and a place to seek from a list of 20 locations on MIT's campus

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020