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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  . For first-year camps like ours, the factor that limits the number of ... Huang and Vivian Tang, works under the supervision of Camp Kesem National ... camp. The remainder of the money we raise is used to cover counselor

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  of the first to bring up the gender discrimination in academia. He was ... former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer ... there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  MITblogging. First of all, what's the catchiest song in the entire world? Wrong ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... think? Could the bunny hat use a bit of an update? Anyway, over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... 's said by the professor, line after line of some derivation of some mind-bending property of spacetime, and try to catch at least some sense of what the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... front of the student center steps. Over 80,000 people have died and more ... homes and families, but also for the future rehabilitation of earthquake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  kitchen: To his credit, he’s the first one out of all of us to make ... consistently the same day in the Gregorian calendar."]fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar [/annotation], it’s also sometimes known as

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  that about 30% of us were going to be kicked out of the class by the end. This, I never picked up on, because throughout the last 1/3 of the class I was busy composing an email to the head instructor of Junior Lab

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best ... ; I compared the impact on US peanut butter sales of two Salmonella

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... of self expression. East Campus and Random Hall are the only mural

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

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  , had probably the second best time of my life (getting accepted and ... place justice, though citrus tastes oh-so-delicious. The best parts of my ... , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  Now that the class of 2025 has arrived, they are, expectedly, chock ... at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... acapella group, a sorority, MIT Symphony Orchestra, and join the exec of your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  of the Orange County ECs, having a nice picnic dinner. Directly ... introduces the OC ECs. I think all of the Admissions Officers were just a ... life of an admissions officer on the road can be hectic, and sadly we do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  the first people off of the flight and after 3 hours of sitting this is ... you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  The MIT Class of 2017 Brass Rat was revealed on February 13th during the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring ... Daniel Mirny and Lenny Martinez    Pictured: half of the auditorium

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  the first month just learning about the type of research that was ... field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  understanding the concept on the first try. Don’t ask the person sitting next to ... and judge all of the stupidity that ends up on your psets. Don’t admit you’re wrong, even in the face of undeniable evidence. You can always

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  two words of the language native to the country you'll be traveling to ... really want to do a segway tour of Berlin, though I'd probably fall off the segway: At the end of the trip, I might even get to hop over to another

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  , and kept the rain off of me pretty well, although the ravages of time ... the very next day and bought me this great, top-of-the-line umbrella ... disparity between the amount of money that I was willing to spend on an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on Conner 2 (second floor, Conner side). Each of the floors has its own very ... huge chunk of money that is allocated to the floors to have activities

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008