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• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  bit of time working on Burton Conner's website, which is a true work of ... decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton ... [annotation note="on second thoughts, it might just be my sense of humor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  giddy, I sent a flurry of e-mails to New House exec, to New House as a ... . Will '15, who had been one of the New House CPW chairs, contributed a ... new bags of supplies when necessary. At one point, we ran out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked ... new half means a feeling of freshness added to old experiences. I ... ! Fukuzawa Yukichi is known as the “Voltaire of the East,” and is still on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... now, getting on to dusk, and I am thinking of heading home soon ... School of the Museum of Fine Arts) appealed to me when I applied here, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  fall, and of 2019; I regret the dates I was too tired to go on, the team ... least, and that's something. I'm steadfastly refusing to take on any new ... self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  some new spins. Then we learned inversions on the first day! It was wild ... to get your leg somewhere and now you’re on top of someone; or they did ... up, then learn a new technique, with different variations or defenses

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... physics classes and become exposed to new mathematical techniques and ideas ... , legs propped up on the seat in front of him, who won the Nobel Prize in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  about new policies on mit events. the restrictions all seemed reasonable ... of which i ignored. i work on my 18.702 pset, which i needed to finish ... to do some of the moves, but i didn’t have any technique. i didn’t know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved ... going by so fast. Now I must say that I've made the following observations ... fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  Office is right off of the Kendall/MIT stop on the redline. Everyone ... seen people of all ages and sizes riding around on bikes here ... a fast food chain, it is a way of life for Bostonians (They take their

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  are over $30,000 in prizes on the line, courtesy of trading companies ... vacation to New Hampshire with the freshmen of Conner 3. We journey deep into ... semester’s grind again. Speaking of semester, I’ve decided to go out on an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is ... Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this ... least Chris M did. Yesterday a video, made by a bunch of people from

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  on our class website, here. For my news article, I wrote about mental ... at our new policy changes and if they are actually doing anything on ... at MIT, and I love it. Here are some of the classes I am taking or have

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  ; * To foster new modes of inter-institutional collaboration; and * To ... remember, and how fast they can shift from absorbing facts and concepts to creating new ideas and solutions themselves." Well, that's quite a lofty

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... 're working on problems with a time scale of many years?  If you're a nuclear ... that cost is low, and cycle time is fast. The secret of software

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  do? From the website: Project Naptha automatically applies state-of ... ,000 downloads (as of 5:09 PM EDT on April 25). It's not perfect, but it comes ... If you're a regular on /r/technology, you might have seen Project

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  : 1) people are afraid of new things, 2) you can always find ... portion of their time on Earth? Then, at the pit of my despair, I had ... exploring new looks, or one of Cami’s existential crises, or CJ’s historical

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  surplus of amateurs on the road. People, really - it's not that hard. Read ... . People already on the Infinite have the right-of-way, so you must imagine ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  whether it will go on this way, blurs of weekdays punctuated by fast ... over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I ... chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno.'" Now the Bruno, like the Smoot, is a uniquely MIT unit of measure. Brush up on some of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005