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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been ... 'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a ... the intensity without relying on "really"**n, a problem only exacerbated

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  -Lab: surviving on $2 a day - the typical living income for a Third World country ... , takes the principles of D-Lab: Design to a real-world level by showing you to create a plan to distribute a technology or business model

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by ... approvingly. On a less-traveled path of the prefrosh journey through CPW ... typical pitch for a CPW event, thanks to the winning combination of gluttony

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  eventually I'd have to at least meet a few new people. And as orientation week ... ), but it does get frustrating very quickly in new settings. When I took my first steps on MIT domain as a prefrosh, I actually spent a lot more time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  embarrassment, isn't it? Apparently they were planning to replace it with a new ... beeps a couple of times to let me know someone's on the line. I open up a ... had to deal with on a daily basis- they gave me such good stories to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... ☺ And that happens to be just a little too far away, haha. Following two

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  created when a new building is put next to an old one without fully ... sometimes use (a small selection from How To GAMIT's glossary)...   armadillo - A small set of drawers common to a select few dorms. beaver - The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  , Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am ... guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really ... reverting back to a 24/7 schedule next year. During CPW, there were little

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  designing a new departmental facility for the Course 1 and Course 12 on a new ... didn’t enjoy my other classes (I’ve been known to offer to take on other ... more focused on photography and then writing some accompanying text as a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when I was 8, and then to several other places before settling down in New ... applications. I write some, I take pictures a lot. I'm going to concentrate in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... place. I freaked out, and grabbed the girl next to me; a shout-out to ... will: I am currently living on a Navajo reservation, forty miles from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  the event approached and I actually had to write out a speech, I quickly ... are all about. Maybe all you need is a 10-15 minute story to get you ... of TIMtalks, “TIMtalks was created as a forum to practice and learn to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to ... interested in MIT freshman year when I got to be on campus during ESP's splash ... would be absolutely amazing to be at for 4 years. Overall, I had a very

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  a new class and being sent off on an entirely new trajectory because ... can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  chemistry on your own! A quick introduction to my recent kitchen escapades: I ... until 3am daily and 7-11 a quick walk away, it is hard to motivate yourself to learn how to cook. This blog will give you a few tips on eating

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more ... is debuting something else, something new. They've created a search ... 't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  the statements of this comparator to their opposites, we achieve a new ... you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... sum to 5 + 9 = 14, and so on. In this way, you don’t need to actually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  Selection has been busy enough that I haven't had time to do a full Questions Omnibus, I do have enough time to steal an idea from Ben and quickly answer a few common questions... ------------------------------------- So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  gain some new perspective, then get down on the floor with a bunch of ... ) some advice for how to quickly finish his art notebook cover project ... make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... started, so I set out to make a great American delicacy: Sloppy Joes. Sam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006