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• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  Last week was Veterans Day, which meant a four day weekend! The ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly ... share. So Sam and Gabe organized a Veterans Day dim sum dinner. We took

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list ... prefrosh and Selam I have built a pandemic platform for lockdown ... be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  a News Editor for our campus newspaper, The Tech. For me, that means one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center ... so, as me and the other news editors were a part of the survey

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  famous for holding up a microphone stand without the bottom part. 3. What ... states where it is illegal to do what at a gas station? 5. What famous 1972 ... for Burton-Conner, a scholar of the history of technology, and a regular

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of ... [annotation note="a yummy flatbread"]naan,[/annotation] which also happens to be

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  do a great job of describing life at MIT. They’re all creatively ... some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is just a few.) But instead of just throwing them at you, I’m going to show

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the ... a software engineering internship to learn software engineering? Well ... there was left to learn. I didn't have a good idea of what separates a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I, and a bunch of other people (mentioned below) put too much work into it ... through a bunch of ideas, like a Buzzfeed/Tasty-style video of a pie recipe

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  to get a driver's permit a few weeks ago, and the lady said, "You have to have a co-signer if you're under 18." I was like, "I AM TWENTY-TWO AND FIVE-TWELFTHS." My high school was a decent suburban Ohio public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of ... , concrete walls. When Day Two rolled along, a metaphorical wrench was thrown

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk ... anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear ... reading applications because they are a lot like doing jigsaw puzzles. When

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  within the same dorm!" Omar, you have a good point, but you are ... for a flimsy reason of short-term convenience like it being easier to move your stuff within a dorm than between dorms. Thanks to a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned ... who have good judgment, a compelling voice and perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  there, watch some kids and can't do all the cool stuff... Being a ... , You do realize that General Relativity is a very advanced physics course. There's a difference between hard and advanced. The only prereqs for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... research , or swing from a giant rope in the trees, I held it with such high

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  https://soundcloud.com/user-192959956/memorial-for-a-dorm i felt the ... years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a small part, only trace a quarter of it i don't know your full history

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023