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  What have I been doing this break?

  

  half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive ... - Go through some of the MASLab tutorials so that I can be useful to the ... school? I went to a very rural, very public school in the middle of nowhere

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of ... superconductors near absolute zero, thus qualifying them as a matter of interest to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  Academy works so well. The key to the success of his early videos, he says ... himself smile. "Force yourself to smile--" he says, "force yourself to laugh ... to look cinematic." This reminds me of something someone said last

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  was a ~little~ hard to see. Around that time I first heard of neural ... [/annotation] were able to transfer the style of one image onto the content of another ... paid trip to MIT  consisting of hanging out with the THINK committee

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... nomber of students willing to live single exceeds the availability of rooms ... decide, it goes to person #2. And so on. A lot of dorms have "In-House Rush

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  one of the top twenty finalists! Before I make my pitch I'd like to ... I decided *not* to be angsty. Instead, I wanted to compile all of my ... started writing my blog for the MIT Admissions website. A lot of the blogs

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... videos gave me secondhand embarrassment in a matter of seconds; I had to go back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a ... the mechanism of these reactions. The idea is to extract how self ... teasing out some of the artist juice I’d like to think I have inside me. Our

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  .com to force me to write walls of text and lose all of my progress if I ... to writer's block is to have a nice cup of tea while listening to some ... windowsill of the Internet for the world to see.   That's what I usually

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a ... cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... . All three of these dorms have spectacular murals, but I wanted to talk ... Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... muscles involved, but this is where you REALLY feel it"]force of my thighs ... you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  was waiting for my plane back to California.   Average amount of ... . That’s not to say that I had no work. Each of the three videos for my ... , so I had plenty of time to evaluate my course load for the semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy ... the control room with me. It's great to be able to have this hour of ... —it's a time where I'm forced to sit down, relax, and enjoy music. And you

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... the stellar occultation technique that led to the discovery of Uranus ... invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... take advantage of it. Don't be afraid to approach your professors ... value of Rush. There's sometimes a grain of truth to the stereotypes you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we ... lose popularity with younger generations and forcing older generations to ... creating an easy way to classify the different sizes of rice grains (larger

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... conveniently close to a lot of things, something I grow more and more thankful of ... Biomolecular Systems), I still have plenty of time to eat and peruse more HASS

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT ... . We took a tour of the exhibition, then had some time to ourselves. A ... opera to sit through. Some food pictures, courtesy of Linh V. '13

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff. Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour ... , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008