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• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  does a disservice to the small miracle of beauty that is this movie and ... making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... lunch: the very collaborative nature of student work (surprising to her ... hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... are smarter than me. So I'm sure some of you know the answer to this ... of water, basically waiting for some major accident to happen. I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... of time to review the materials that are sent in so please be concise

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  little breath of sunshine to your day between cramming your 18.02 homework and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the ... . The promise of free food has been known to draw together crowds of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... that ability to convey lots of meaning very succinctly is vital in any ... support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  what kind of data would be helpful to answering your question. This ... of data that doesn't relate to my question. Maybe the data is ... locations where each player (in a virtual game of hide and seek) chose to hide

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  : An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful ... have some kind of authority in relation to the audience. 2. Proof by ... inaccessible literature: The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  equipment to keep track of LAPTOP The Pros: - Mobile - Lightweight - Can do ... primary mode of computing my freshman year kept me in my room to do work ... 're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  to be my advisor.) The first half of the class meets with a Chemistry ... scientist to take a sample of a substance and figure out the structure of the ... Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the awesome capabilities of this wonderful invention called "The Laptop." It has ... anything to say, so I'm going to do a google search, find some misconception

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  decide to redesign? As I explained here, we were proud of our old website ... our old site, here's what you basically need to know: most of the ... screen space to 75% of screen space), but it also strings throughout the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that ... together huh cat taking sled ride: also courtesy of my housemate! oh to be a ... hanukkah: you only have to appreciate one of {hanukkah, daveed diggs rapping

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  answers are brief, but I hope that by publishing answers to all of your ... something to ask about Part 2 Section 1 b, something i do for the pleasure of ... a copy of the site in a CD and send it to MIT or can I refer them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do ... : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack ... steal anything. Brute force is the last resort of the incompetent. Do

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... disparity between the amount of money that I was willing to spend on an umbrella and the kind of service I had come to expect from an umbrella. With

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

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  of those days, so I forced myself to trudge outside with a tripod and ... announcement email[/caption] The prospect of getting to fiddle with technology ... slight yet intense feeling of excitement at getting to try out all the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  gathered to recognize and remember Glorianna Davenport's 30-years of research and teaching at MIT. Above: Glorianna Davenport of the Media Lab ... remarks, not in the sense of consuming media "out there" but in her reliance

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious ... A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... classes and methods, -- different classes and complexity of algorithms ... different number. 6.00 is the sum of 6.0001 (Introduction to Computer Science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017