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  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  "I think that I could make a black hole," Carl says. I raise an eyebrow. "Really? How?" He rubs his hands together and squints. A lightbulb ... need...........hydrogen." "Hydrogen?" "Yeah, hydrogen. And soda. And a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... student/person/wizard/etc. for only pursuing a single major. Do what makes you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... ? Internships as a 6-9 (Anything you want!) Example internships I've had ... ). Course 6-9 (Computation and Cognition) is a joint major between the two

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a zero-knowledge cryptography project with 0xparc, a crypto research ... to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can't name, I open up a blank Wordpress file and start typing. It barely feels

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided to do a dual blog post about our CPW experiences - hers as an excited prefrosh, and mine as a jaded East Campus CPW chair. The Build-Up [Ankita

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  IAP (Independent Activities Period) is a really neat time at MIT ... goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  /or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that can consume my ... that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not ... about a white elephant right now. Maybe, like me, your brain would do

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on ... and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human being. A big part of this was learning how to cook and bake. I tried a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... the metropolitan areas involved vary. Metro Manila is a well ... tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before everyone headed out for the break. There were a lot of preliminary project

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  it before. Mix the two together and you just get a really excitable and ... two reasons: one, a lot of our events are discussions or activities ... seeking a safe space, so, we definitely don’t snap pictures of those. And

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the ... how to collect the glass from the furnace on a pipe or punty (long rod ... deal with the glass getting cold?” Rest assured, there is a solution that

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was frantically typing up essays fueled by caffeine and a tinge of desperation. Each

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited ... " but manage to smile and say "um, maybe taking a gap year before applying to grad school or possibly working if I find a cool company who wants

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  Committee, and I enjoyed designing our class's Brass Rat. As a lover of MIT ... a forward before the presentation was handed off to RingComm.   Raivo and I were the first to come up, giving a quick talk on the history

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  interest. As a result, I have not blogged for eternity. One day, I may ... about her awesome film-making job) and a visiting film crew from ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  promised much excitement. Someone rolled a large TV from their room. We watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014