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  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The ... the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... systems research and development, c) exciting, by which I mean "Stargate SG

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  On January 1st, I enjoyed a nice New Year's dinner with my family. We ... -year-old brother play the saxophone. On January 2nd, I was sitting at our dining room table, planning out my year. 2017 is the year that I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  . I won't be surrounded by friends per se, but a few of them will be ... campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I ... -19 restricted MIT campus. To clarify, I don't actually need to live on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... the knowledge that if I horribly messed up, at least I'd be able to no ... washing machines and ridiculous gyroscopes in 8.01, I felt pretty certain

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  It is currently 5:26am and even though I really truly definitely positively absolutely should be asleep right now, I’m not. I know that classes start tomorrow (or I guess today, if we are being technical about it) and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  ieYk It was (and is) incredibly arresting and compelling video, and I asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did, and I have reproduced it, unedited, immediately below. I put my first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  figures I idolized, the lab whose PI I awkwardly Googled thinking someday I ... What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  intimidating, so I have put together a complete guide of all groceries near MIT ... first and to put fragile items on top. When I’m not careful about this step, I always end up squishing all of the bananas, and it’s very sad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  The four questions I'm going to address: 1) "It seems like the food ... make the choice to go to MIT again, would you? I'm a little embarrassed ... still eat at a dining hall: they accept cash and TechCash. From what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  moment, I wished I could understand it all, and I promised myself that I ... curriculum; in the hopes of learning as much as I can in my major, my ... birthplace Bologna! Day 17: Learning is hard (I imagine)! I was pleasantly

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  some of my fellow underclassmen learn web dev, I suggested making a ... has TA'd an interesting IAP class called 6.148, a web development class and competition. He's a really smart guy, and I found out about this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  hi internet! i took my last final this morning and am now done with junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post about my semester. classes i only had one final this semester, and for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... MIT for almost four years, I had not yet explored Boston's food scene as ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my floor. I opened the door and found my roommate, James Deng, standing ... recoiling into the space behind me, he grinned and said, “I am the one who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Ideas Contest. Click around on there I don't think it's a secret. Two ... about it somewhere a long time ago. However, I am NOT recycling material (I am not that lame) because this is about the start-up company that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  a sprawling codebase. I didn't enjoy Googling errors and copy ... This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  . Curious, I typed into my Google search bar: hereditary gastric cancer. Among ... Of all the student groups I am involved with at MIT, the one that ... of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... followed by their placement into a community. Before SCUFFY began, I spent a ... art. I honestly could not be happier with how it turned out...I feel

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  Google Calendar or other similar online planning apps/websites, but we just ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my favorite backgrounds from Steven Universe! Another reason I like physical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017