Search

Search Results

• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  I’ve decided I talk too much. I need to give some other people a ... very appealing. Maggie: I actually had a phase in high school where I ... involved in a school newspaper with fellow engineers and scientists, not

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at ... Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... I’m traveling to a country that has none of my family members in it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray ... . But given the speed of the water coming down a slide and the speed of light, this seemed a little hokey. Besides, after crashing into the bottom

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no every-day classes, no problem sets, no only a few last-minute, late nights ... /Course 2 reasoning behind how it worked, 2.) it can be used in a lot of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

    i have a general color coding scheme: green are ... action items for myself, or retroactive descriptions for what i did for a block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  Thanksgiving at MIT has always been just a paltry two days off, Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking ... classes is actually, uh, not a break, even if you don't have any class. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  holidays because a lot of our extended family doesn't live within a drivable ... packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the ... me that the world is a beautiful place. It's easy to forget that when

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Cabral '07. I have a ridiculous expression on my face. I don't photograph ... 'm no longer UAVP. I wrote a column for the Tech, with a lot of emotional ... things are not as they should be in the UA. I've thought a lot about this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle ... visit as a Chinese citizen. This year, I spent the weekend at the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  i sigh and sit down and maybe drink a calpico and finish them. i look outside and it's dark. i need a break. i want to leave. on saturday, i ... boston logan, and join my friends. i take a plane far, far away, to a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... with a friend visiting from the other coast over lunch in Central Square ... for an away competition!"]a record 7 of us[/annotation] on the MIT

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  llamas and alpacas. the pc running out of a shoebox built solely for vr ... and befriend and laugh with. i get a taste of what old toons might have ... -just- a little too far away to be comfortable. but honestly, the distance

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in ... autonomy; the blogs are a specific example of this general case. The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the ... whole day but I promise that this story has a point. Growing up I watched

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu ... optimization. I live in East Campus with a ginger cat named Reese, who takes his REM a lot more seriously than I do. Sometimes, he relinquishes his

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  a bunch of reasons like cutting edge research blah blah blah you all ... be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore ... do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  with "Washlava," a laundry platform consisting of IoT-connected machines ... on anonymous MIT Confessions. 1. A summer discovery In my freshman year ... room, in a [annotation note="the low-rise (specifically, H Entry

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  -cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  awesome vs. IAP remaining looked something like 1/x^4, culminating in a ... my things into a suitcase and head for New Hampshire with my friends. Once we arrive, there is a wonderful surprise inside : Vicky '12's mom

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009