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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Sights Las Vegas: At CES 2017, my friends and I networked with ... reality. I did that at both the Innovations Showcase and the Upload afterparty. There, I got to meet with virtual reality experts and learn more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  the department  It’s been exactly one month since commencement, and I ... September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... , I love to tell the story of how I never imagined coming to MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  checking Google Maps. After nearly a year here, I’m starting to know ... This summer has been busy, this summer has been full. I’ve been writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary ... to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... admittedly is a baller - so I also love the Charles River Bike Path, which runs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  ” calendar so I would see a completely blank slate. Google Calendar was stark ... . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... my decision, I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking. There’s much

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  MIT, companies ranging from the likes of Facebook and Google to smaller companies ... extensively by Ceri in her excellent post MIT Mini Maker Faire, I won't go into

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  ,000 nominations per year to choose from. That's a 4% acceptance rate, less than MIT ... years, there have been 89 30 Under 30 MIT alumni. I was interested in knowing how what industries Forbes thinks MIT is innovating the most, so I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  maintained on a Google Sheets doc. Someday, I tell myself, historians will ... the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , because I still think in Python-influenced data structures, years after 6 ... /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  hours, and I'm feeling a little guilty. See, it's the MIT biology ... this month, I met a few California kids who told me they were also ... weather, and I assured them that it had been warm all winter and had hardly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  really excited, and decided to apply. Here's how it works: I went to http://web ... So I shared my blog entries with Alicia, the MISTI-Spain Program ... could mention the MISTI program?" Uh, duh Laura. Sometimes I wonder about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  landed a summer internship with Google, got two A+’s in classes I had ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... files. One of them contains a lot of documents that I definitely wouldn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many ... ? I understand people’s motivations more clearly. Body language, tone

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... Art Association’s Speed Graphic. I loved the results: The fine ... enlarger. I fancied seeing what an 8x10 negative would look like, but the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  とうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT ... 're having fun =p) Following the "tradition," I've decided to spend this IAP ... not have a IAP Japan program (hinthintnudgenudge administration? =p) I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Hello, my name is Taylor. I’m still alive, although my lack of ... I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this post on Google Docs as I always did, though our new platform has a fancier back-end I could have used (unbeknownst to you all).  The last time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  , nothing quite clicked immediately. After a quick Google search, I was almost ... I have so many things and so little space, but I'll try my best to communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  easy to use, so I found a picture on Google as inspiration and went to ... the Institute"]I3 videos[/annotation] for certain dorms, you know that ... years of involvement in Burton Conner government, I've seen how staunch

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021