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  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... 's Strandbeest stood in the rain on a patch of pavement outside the Media Lab. With wind in their sails, and aided (on a rainy but not-so-windy day) by

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

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  now, I have gone to sleep with a gentle tap on my window As the rain ... to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... , once in mirror The glassy surface of the river reflects a portal to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that ... ! So awesome! On that note, what does everyone think of the new season ... I'm just going to have to accept that. Still, I could use a little

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... potential to make a positive contribution to society; and GT-Cybersource, a ... 's cousin?). After Reno, I was off to Sacramento, where I hosted a Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... physical device itself, and has to make the flash look like a traditional

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  square with only a few hours of daylight left which I hoped not to spend in ... a year afterward, I became no longer able to call that place home, but ... your head is that of punks standing on a street corner in a bad 80s teen

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do ... classes i've taken, there's a focus on implementations, and algorithms that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... Francisco. On the day before my flight back to Asia, I thought to look for my ... in my desk in New York. Frantically, we started to see if there was any

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from the library and is probably trying to make a shelter for the local ... purposefully how to on my own. I was always very reflective and sought out people ... a practicing Buddhist, and after meditations I try to use my clear

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  school applications, and Steve running a regression on admitted stats to ... QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... I graduated, but somehow never found the time to do so. Now, on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  , listening to songs about Alexander Hamilton on YouTube, and flipping through ... , confident as you please. I tend to solve problems quickly, so the extreme time ... Hamilton-listening time took a serious hit. Partial fractions continued to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  't really need it per say, but since I want to go into journalism, a writing ... self - aka we're going to be writing a memoir! The professor is Sherry ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... application to Cataldo EMS, a private ambulance service for which many MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that ... (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  noting on a blog read by students aspiring to study at a school fascinated ... of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While ... would be fair to call Nick a palindrome enthusiast; indeed, also a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  dinosaurs. It's very easy to start on a Wikipedia page about The Solar System ... the biggest change from being a full-time student to being a full-time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  her family to lean on during a pretty difficult time in the pandemic ... reached such a milestone in my life and terrified to be completely on my own ... focused on tech history. I even got to be a keynote speaker alongside the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... ’ve written a blog for MIT, and I really don’t have much to contribute.  But I ... don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... were just too many course to take, so many new things to try, so many new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  2018. I keep having new ones, and I want some way to document why I like ... , and the path that Chavo had to walk in his life as a wrestler. I went ... a week on a black and white TV. He always rooted for the hero, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025