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• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  faces, drained of their usual cheer, widened by shock. "A plane crashed ... the office computer and watched the replay of the crash. I started to ... iMac in the center of the room. We watched as a second plane flew into

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  innovative method of opening the window. Namely, she opened the window ... -and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting ... the dregs of October, I've finally decided that today is the momentous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  materials and methods section -- explaining all the experiments I've done and ... , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course ... from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to ... , and the glasses cause one of the images to enter one eye and the other

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May ... myself blink out and in of existence as I crossed the threshold of the office each morning and evening. The meat of each day was some combination

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  the hope-springs-eternal method with the actual grade the greater of the ... later into something more like a random assortment of wingdings characters ... week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  /Poisson, and wave equations. Methods of solution, such as separation of variables ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry ... of granola flatbread, studied experimental bacon physics for six finger

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... entire human genome, so that we now know the location of all human genes ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  interface has a bunch of different methods and if you create a class… I DON ... always puts super cute pictures of his cute baby son with captions that are related to what we learned about. There were a bunch of him eating spherical

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned ... .350 - Topics and Methods in 21st Century Journalism 12 units I ... totally a secret fanboy of (Hard News and The Panic Virus are fantastic

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... Computing Group. The leader of our group is Zoya Bylinskii, a PhD student, and our group consists of three MEng students, a Master’s student from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed ... showed as purple. The downside was that there was a lot of transfer; my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  it's a bit of a walk from the lab and because it's kind of expensive ... reservoir of parental TechCash money, and I actually have to pay for all my meals myself. It kind of sucks. But anyway, it was a nice sunny day, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  variety of research methods - books, journals, Internet, and real ... "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of ... the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of ... -hand column. When you give up, check out Srivastava's method. So, did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  anything.” - Maria Kalman My heart was nearly jumping out of my chest when I ... ="Admitted students weekend primarily geared towards students of Latine/Hispanic descent ... shutting down. After checking in and dropping my bags in a sea of other bags

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• 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…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... 's book author to speak, and donated a copy of one of his books to all of

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

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  all of this without ever leaving your room.  What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  methods (Zhu and Gao, 2008) revealed that the cause of structural failure in ... Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17.801 Political Science Scope and Methods, 17.803 Political Science Laboratory (the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017