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• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to ... angle throughout, or you need to grip the chalk a bit further back. If you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  weekend, I blew off steam by going on retreat with my hall (3rd East) to New ... . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... that focus on science and math? Can I make a baking soda volcano and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  ? To make things even better, we started out with a low-key lab on the ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  ; on the unfulfilled or shattered promises our nation has made to ... Institute community must do to forge a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive ... histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  since Simmons opened in 2002. In addition to a slew of Simmons residents ... noon on Friday with a big "kickoff" event, which serves the dual purpose ... , or sleeping. (Oh, and I ate a bit too.) The puzzles I worked on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  -coordinated tournament on the ISS. The goal of this UROP?  To write a game, teach it to ... It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  much I can take on just because I reallllllly want to do a particular ... needing to move on to the next thing, and the next thing, and only in that ... to pick whatever's most urgent. [See: Appendix A.] I've been noticing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  went on a gap year, MIT seemed like a glass castle, so very far. Now I ... classes, how to manage the ridiculously hard one so that I don’t skimp on ... them know how to cook, and day by day we’re finding a schedule. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  programs like "The O'Reilly Factor." On the show, Colbert plays a character ... know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  at the time, so i learned a lot - every time i wanted to visit a new ... , so i will try to give a concise summary based on my understanding of ... charitable take on this is that my friends have found a way to decouple life

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  Wars movies they were going to watch on a given night. Which, I mean, is ... named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  vans, waking up earlier than they probably would have liked to on a ... on the student's performance as a leader. The assessed students then fill out a "yellow card" on their own time. Yes! The blue and yellow

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing ... can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... project with. The BBC also did a story on I/O Brush: The MIT researcher took

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  applies to watching a terrible movie for my film class. tell my friends ... . introduce my new friends to my old friends. if my friends are friends with me ... ask if they want to take a walk or go to beantown. take pictures of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  or something, because I'm going to need a lot more practice on ... Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  nothing due. i wanted to spend a day in nyc from sheer boredom, but it ... , about to start my first day as a software engineering intern at godaddy in ... of non-americans would balk at the fact that it took me 5 hours on a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas ... decided to work on an [annotation note="In a world where I passed 6.00, I am ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  semester, we were loosing a lot of motivation to work on our final projects ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... to ensure that we will be able to live in a different double in 3E next

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  leave it on the stove (on high) to heat up. On a large plate or bowl ... , transfer them to a plate and microwave them on high for two minutes. Cover ... meat into circles and fry them on a pan in olive oil on medium to high

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  hosted a community picnic to celebrate The Howard Dining Hall, which is on ... posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... . The picnic was outside, with all-you-care-to-eat sandwiches and a whole

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011