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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can ... Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I learned a lot about MIT history and trivia.) I've said it before and I ... and took a 2-hour nap, and when I woke up I realized I had no homework

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  Reality Virtually Hackathon 6.148 web.lab This is a 6 unit IAP class and ... For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... mailing list about a really cool IAP internship opportunity offered in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  whim, just because I want to and because I can. I coded up a little web ... In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions ... of it (recognizing it as idealistic, possibly self-centered and a ... Dreyfus Writings, W.E.B. DuBois Food Justice, Robert Gottlieb and Apunama

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  was warm. I walked around without a hat or gloves and didn't feel the ... 's taking on a new project, writing a computer program, or putting together a ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  Internet." It was essentially a conference and over a hundred college and ... it. I was really excited for the conference for a couple of reasons ... admissions as a whole. While we were there we saw something so, um

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  : Physics C- Mech: 5 Physics C- E/M: 5 I...am at a loss for words. I have absolutely NO IDEA how this happened. I think somebody made a mistake. *grin* I ... corner of MIT server space (yay!) and I have managed to piece together a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  Media Studies, taught by Ian Condry. He's a cultural anthropologist; his ... having one or a small group of "authors" or "creators"; we associate ... atmosphere of a new film or the wide variety of fan-produced content ranging

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... me a curveball: what do I do for fun. MIT may be known for its academic rigor, but it doesn’t have to be a grind all the time. So, even though I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  . Tuesdays used to be a glorious time. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Gates lobby ... market closed this IAP. I refreshed the web page regularly to check its hours, but it never returned. I felt a brief glimmer of hope when I heard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  . Actor James Woods came close in 1969 but dropped out a semester before ... Plano West Senior High seniors will have the chance to make a difference ... graduation would be a time for goodbyes and reflections. "Just four years ago

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically ... Princeton, NJ. This is not the be confused with a meeting of students who have ... a tangent for a second, I have to say that one of my absolute favorite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  maliciously? Security's a much larger part of the modern web, so this wouldn ... A non-negligible number of people reading this were probably pretty ... , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  your life that will obviously stand out to you; web design was a major ... (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing a particularly good entry, they happen to deviate from their work and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  other stuff. Web apps like Twitter tend to have a lot of state ... 'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the ... a software engineering internship to learn software engineering? Well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  create a web or mobile app that tackled a particular problem statement ... As many of you know, I've been completing a seven week internship under Microsoft called The New Technologists program. I wrote a bit about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  up a computer in the cloud using Amazon Web Services. For my daily life ... My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three ... college. A secondhand Lenovo ThinkPad T420. 4.78 pounds, supposedly

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... Hamilton-listening time took a serious hit. Partial fractions continued to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... sophomore year, she developed a strong interest in international development ... gripped Niger in 2005. After taking a few classes at MIT that focused on ID

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007