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• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  everything that went down since last Monday.  Finals are still looming on the ... other robot, which I worked on, had to help a person open a drawer and ... our robot on Monday night to be ready for the Tuesday night competition

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and ... February, former Uber employee Susan Fowler posted “Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber” on her personal blog. The post quickly went

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a ... ’ve realized in the past semester that I can be really hard on myself. Sometimes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  introductory philosophy classes).  Note: this post was updated on June 21 in ... increased by 1.1°C (2.0°F), and 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurred ... deliberation on this issue. Scientists point out that we need to reduce gas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  what my post-graduation plans were on the student financial aid form. I ... Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and other pahtological diseases' effects on the ... research on reversing a certain brain defect during the first lecture

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday, at Haymarket :) On Saturday morning, my good friend Mesi K. '18 and I went to go do some yoga at a great (and affordable!) place on Newbury

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  ’t know I live in the #1 dorm on all of MIT campus #BURTONCONNERORDEATH ... episode). It seems very nice being on west campus snugly between Baker and ... potential to take on each of these personalities to get the girl (in this case

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... . James' books on "Living the Simple Life" by involving your kids in ... before I had such a thing as work clothes, while I was still on the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... respond, I procrastinate on making a new resume by getting back to psetting ... can use on the test. At around midnight, I realize I need to somehow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the ... ;     On the morning of commencement, I too addressed something to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  , their decisions are real enough to be on your mind, but not all real ... decision”) on your screen. So you wait a bit longer. That’s all you can do. Now, I could go on and on about how “well, you’ll be happy wherever you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  I am only a freshman, I have decided on a thesis which I will defend ... opposite student dozing off or sleeping somewhere on campus.” ....All right ... ) holds true virtually anywhere on campus, but no place portrays this law as

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  ’m on a plane flight home. Dire Straits’ "On Every Street" hums through ... covered. Luckily, life has been entirely on Pass/No Record for the past four ... (#3). On Monday night of finals week, my friends and I spent hours

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  years. Other than that, I've started writing on Yelp, because I consider ... since college, I'll share with you two travel mishaps. On Forgetting the ... Francisco. On the day before my flight back to Asia, I thought to look for my

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

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... 're not entirely comfortable turning on, part choices, and Arduinos, maybe ... receiver on it.  It's not pretty, but it drives. At the end of lab, my

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... , and 18.03 Differential Equations). Since freshmen are on pass/no record ... , final grades are coming out, with little "P" for Passes appearing on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  start to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and (2) you ... due on the same day. These are variables that you have little control ... on your strengths, you might coast through a few semesters at MIT too

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on ...  EVLA time, and 4 free hours of VLBA time: that's free time on two of the most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  many more conversations that needed to happen on campus, and when I ... ’t want to put on my jeans and sweater to walk back to my dorm; I wanted to ... I put on all my layers before heading home. Over IAP, I spent many

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... of this was because I grew up on Macs, and so I've always thought in ... system without breaking too much stuff. But on an Apple product, I find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011