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  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  to your eye. Here's a visual example from this website (which I ... , blue to yellow, etc*. This seemed to depend on the shade of the original ... basics of color opponency To understand this, you will need a color wheel

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  , it prints out a header page with your username on it so you can quickly ... kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on ... outfit to Ruth's room, where she went all Project Runway on me and helped

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  after 7.013 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That gives me a fairly low time-to ... would win a chance to compete again the following weekend on February 22 ... culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... jungles to enthusiasm for a very real internship - far away from home and ... . Um. The street? A sleeping bag in the lab? I would be happy sleeping on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... winter on a 21st century MIT campus, so chances are that whatever she spent ... red B icon means - but a quick glance down reveals that wheoever they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  to catch up. She’s just moved out somewhere to the West to live on a ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in ... setting up in the List Arts Center. It was super inspiring to see a large ... ] on practices of composition and choreography to create dynamic

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  -back culture to a lot of the places I've found on HelpX, which is pleasant, but ... check out the hosts! If you've set your mind on somewhere, apply to a ... rides to save on a hostel was not worth it for me -- I love sleeping on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  "most read" on the side for a quick idea of what it's about). Then there ... archives). I've got to imagine that this was a serious facepalm moment for ... a day recording his trip to Russia as American ambassador there. I was

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  love the word nerd, I was quick to post a reply that said something about nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book ... around on my laptop and I came across a post on my facebook wall from one

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most ... . like, actually, this man is losing his damn mind in a way you have to see ... together huh cat taking sled ride: also courtesy of my housemate! oh to be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw ... Rural Development, an Indian NGO. Rickshaw Bank loans rickshaws on a micro ... to measure the amplitude of a triangle wave and its derivative. We

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are ... this information off the website. So if you want to know more, you should ... to the presenters even for just a brief moment), everyone got a raffle

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  someday? I'm going up to the Tampa session on the 16th, but that's a four ... ://www.mit-admissions.org/7075/newusr.asp (you need a new additional login beyond your MyMIT login ... ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I ... I'd throw that out there. What a great town. I got a chance to be ... High School. I was treated to a pre-game show by the School Marching Band

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  showcase. casting, cutting, CNC'ing, oh my! Each day featured a new design process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... a 3-D printing company and gave a lecture on the uses and failures of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  was a little less excited to see the picture on the card we bought him ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... ? Hacksaw? Russ will always know where to find it. Everyone's getting a bit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... yourself stuck on, say, a college essay - maybe it's time to invest in some ... between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  South Africa on a mission trip to the Mamelodi Township near Pretoria. I ... ="aligncenter" width="923"] This is Hydrant, a student-made website you can use to build ... one [1] ONE recitation on Fridays. What a schedule to have.  So what is

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... 's better to have fewer things on your resume that stand out, than to have a ... paired your résumé down, include a quick summary header, which I like to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016