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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... distance. Google maps told me it would take 40 minutes if I wanted to walk ... . I can read ten hours a day without any class or exam to do it for. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  want to be; more on the method to the madness, later, probably ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if ... the art of being hosed's not too hard to master though it may look like

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  on the back. Still, it got 30+ MPG, its 5spd stick shift was fun to ... quickly than I'd planned. The brakes had been squeaking, so I took it into ... 'd be willing to park with; and there's Reuse-Sell, where people can try

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  scene. Autostitching can be used to make panorama shots and even "mini ... ="aligncenter" width="750"] Poisson image editing — it's hard to tell but the "WOW" is in ... motion-planning system uses inverse kinematics to maneuver the cups with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , crossed it, and headed to the Hatch Shell. This is when I began my ... made it to the Hatch Shell and instantly thought "Oh right Matt, sure ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  of the slides: We tied them to the top of the flask, we used an Eppendorf tube as a flotation device, we tried to use wire to hold it in place ... to the solution, so our product yield was half of its potential. It

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  firehose? Well, this semester I can definitely attest to that. My course load ... ! It's a great class because it teaches you how to measure physical ... , it's useful work). CMS.350: 21st Century Journalism- This HASS class

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  Through Paper Prints Seeking an independent and highly motivated student to ... able to work independently. Basic requirements for all UROPs will include ... analysis of functional MRI data using support vector machines and independent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... as an independent inquiry, but later got mentorship for it through MIT ... major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  people can’t get access to that incredible feeling on the other hand, it’s ... : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very ... developer because i worked on a relatively familiar stack. if i had to put it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... author of that night's menu) told me, "and you owe it to yourself to find that place. Even if you're already medium-happy." I'm used to being

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  by now, too paranoid to look at the calendar ("oh my goodness, it ... bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a ... Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  only wants you to be able to use maths to solve all sorts of problems ... ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... to Gambia and found a nice car and drove and drove and drove it back to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  and duly put a check next to the “Theorize-about-things-that-aren't-useful ... even if you do have to pay for it. I think it averages to about 2 dollars ... Boston weather reminds me that springtime is about to melt over this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it ... before, so I wasn't sure what kind of paint I should use. There were cans ... design, but I didn't want to commit to it for a whole painting. I only

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  like to share it with you. I'd also like to connect my experience to MIT ... classes can be directly applicable to important current issues. WGS.151 and ... assumptions, pointing out potential issues, and using their data to reconstruct

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  , you have to at least look into it, right?” the first place i looked was ... ! anyways, i’m here to talk about IAP! i used my first IAP to rest from 1st ... had no time to waste. i honestly can’t remember much from the days

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during ... prize in Physics for using cosmic radiation data to support the Big Bang

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  down, as opposed to just typing it out. Using pencil & paper doesn ... being said, in some contexts a tablet can be a useful supplement to a ... I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  as TechCash. It lets you store money on your ID card and use that to ... 't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... , but not like during the year. During the summer it'd be pretty hard to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008