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• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to ... to live." THING I LEARNED: hindi text is encoded using the devanagari ... that is why it is in our nature to attempt to make other people more like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  “menace to society.” As I googled Amaud Arbery’s name I almost threw my ... SICK AND TIRED I AM SO DONE WITH GOOGLING THESE NAMES! I DON’T WANT TO ... black lives, because it just made sense to me. I thought rational thinking

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  our defective sand bath back to New Jersey. You can read all about it ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  , yet it was still difficult to make sense of each living group’s general culture from all that I knew. And it was especially hard to figure out one ... . Additionally, it could be intriguing to see how one student’s view on a living

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  web method. My brain works best when it can see the interconnections ... 't remember why I wanted to be a mailman, but I guess it just seemed like a fun ... teach a bunch of aliens how to play baseball. It's like 50 pages long and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  before CPW?" Well, it depends, do you want to spend it at MIT or not at MIT ... admissions office will be kind enough to extend its deadline as well?" Since ... if she can apply MIT later when she changes her mind to apply MIT for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  longer.) Clothes hangers tend to be useful if you have anything more than ... certainly print your stuff in any Athena cluster for free, it's sure nice to ... useful for their room. I'm not a subscriber to the whiteboard

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  having the best possible match between the prefrosh (get used to it, you ... as CPW. As for CPW, I don't think it goes according to plan for most prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  , though I’ve gotten more used to it. Problem sets in 6.005 happen in two ... them. Exam grading, which I couldn’t make it to because of lecture, is ... free admission to), forward it to Cory, and think about how we should go

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  towers all over everything else. It used to hold blimps. Now it just holds ... Mountain View to make weather.com boring for me. I used to think it'd be sooo ... does not have a license for Matlab! I have to use Octave! That's why my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  -record. It is meant to level the playing field, so that you will succeed at MIT ... matter what school you attend. It is difficult to adjust to living away ... -night snacking while pseting. It might take you some time to adjust to living with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  he used it for his job, I asked why. "Because," he said, "it just works ... , how it operates, the innate and unspoken cultural references and use ... Apple was trying to make its stores seem like a church, a sacred space

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  those not used to public transportation because it involves two transfers, but it's not difficult: Blue line inbound to Green line inbound to Red ... Lupe (who I'm looking forward to seeing at CPW!) asked, "is it pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  checking in, they told me that it was illegal to go to Canada without staying ... ! (Now that I think of it, NOW, time is going by too quickly. I haven ... soon enough time started to pass by a bit more quickly . I soon learned

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  writing and think it'd be great to improve my creative writing ability, or ... concentration, and I want mine to be writing! It'll give me a little break from ... ! Everyone is nice, calm, helpful, and quick to guide me when I have questions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  underestimate how difficult it can be to travel as a black person, because as I ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of ... it did come eventually so here is the story of my quest to ठीके

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  expanding my horizons is effective, I can say that it's best to keep an open ... ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  kitchen appliances. It originally belonged to my aunt, but she sent it to my ... remarkably juicy and tender.  Using a rice cooker is quick and easy. All you have to do is chop up the meat and/or vegetables, put it in the rice

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  globe to explore new labs, new methods and new research projects. Here is ... leishmaniasis which can be fatal. The city: Paris has a lot to offer and ... can use the technical portions of my internship in my UROP. In the long

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did ... of beauty I ever knew. It was not odd that I wanted to look like her ... shimmying. It would have to be worthy of a film school submission. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018