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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield today. Apparently she asks five or six students to eat lunch with her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  ) flew by quickly. That is until we got to the arachnids exhibit (finally ... with the background; I would never have imagined it to be bright, Barbie ... those instruments were originally used for hunting and made to mimic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  myself for it. This isn’t going to go away soon, and all I can do is keep ... It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  yet (I'll get to it later, I'm about to go to sleep...), but basically, it will potentially involve re-programming a WiiMote. To that end, my ... involved using the WiiMote to control robots. http://www.iearobotics.com

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  know that it can be a lot of pressure for some students to have to “out ... country has had so much progress when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community. At ... to know why we are asking about their gender identity and if it will be

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... going to skip this blogging challenge. It’s been forever since I ... at writing something, and the deadline is so close I can feel its

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary ... can see, there is a biker on this route right now - Google Street View ... front of me, and I'm going to hit it.     I tried to brake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  to believe in something, taking a positive perspective on it can ... ) and it still doesn't feel like I quite have the grip on how to navigate ... . Don't waste time trying to prove to yourself that you can finish a PSET

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by ... general, the GEM is better than other detectors because it is safer to use ... may be used in future models. GEMs are able to detect particles using

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I ... : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the ... character, Billy." No biggie. It's okay to perform in a musical and sing a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  biodiesel that can fuel MIT's shuttle buses. The money will be used to ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... calamities: pretend it’s not happening, accept defeat, or try to make

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  control flow to some extent. you must think about how its branches can flow ... 's disturbing to me how painless it feels to be saying goodbye. two games i have ... everything. ben&ben has a song called branches, and when i listen to it i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it wins Cards Against Humanity (NSFW) - dirty Apples to Apples and you can ... person needs to own this). we've played Fakin' It, Quiplash, Trivia Murder

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  used the definition of light as it relates to weights. I did this ... wording/message for it to fit the theme."]weight[/annotation] that it can ... because I strongly identified with its artsy vibe but also wanted to adopt

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  can assure you that it's much, much tastier than Paul Revere's house ... , independent living groups, and various student organizations can wrangle their ... the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  guy, and it’s been going okay i guess. i get that it’s meant to be ... like i’m getting any closer to act upon these thoughts. it’s not that ... , going to sleep. it’s just that i haven’t interacted with as much people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks ... influences your relationships with print material. Is a viewbook as useful to ... from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  think it's fairly safe to say that you have destroyed our campus. I look ... Toy Design homework due tomorrow (not to mention 18.03). It was hard to ... BOOM! CPW is now over and dear sweet gummy bear in the sky was it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  myself falling behind this goal, so I changed it to finish fifteen books by ... great mathematicians. I always found it pretty neat to learn about the ... sure to be on the bucket list. Anyways, It was just super cool to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a ... hot athlete. It's great that they try to portray a reality where the ... . Since my parents gave me the independence to explore my own cultural

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020