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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  and dry. Yay. So on Saturday, to prepare for the worst, I went winter ... new and scary. On the flip side, the transition to the fall climate has ... starting to change colors, and the Boston and Cambridge skyline looks on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say ... -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  'm focusing on is Splash. If you don't know, Splash is basically MIT students teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  people are too stupid to know they are stupid. Impostor syndrome, on the ... . When I first came to MIT - having never stepped foot on campus before my ... 's sense of self-worth clipped to the quick. So for those who are feeling a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  trips to do some "real" climbing, and I hopped on the first one I could ... to be able to orient yourself in such a way that you can stand on a ... research project for a class on the effects of knot geometry on the tensile

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  on my coat to leave and squashed the toy, which blurted out (very ... , I started jogging for the door, while the Dalek announced to everyone ...     (Photo credit for these two goes to Julie H. '11) I was amazed by how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... EDIT, 6/11/06: Due to some server problems, this entry and its

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... -nighter on the last day, finishing just in time to glue the bellows, roll it up ... the bellows to the camera body, readying it for its first (and hopefully

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad ... stools and matching curtains; sprinkle whiteboards to taste. Let simmer for ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  fraternity (for example, because you have too many extracurriculars on your ... finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They'll have until 8:00am this Saturday to decide whether or not they want

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten years, it was understandably a big deal for me when last Sunday, in the midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  have some block on an inclined plane or something, and you’ve got to ... dying to do for years- I went to a kickboxing class! (MIT has kickboxing ... sure. But for now, I have sold my soul to scheme (the programming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... year ago because one of the professors saw me working on a project for a completely unrelated class and decided (very serendipitously) to invite me on a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we ... ) up a general interface for dealing with sets: I chose to define a card

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  ’s easy to zoom in so closely on what you do that you never stop and wonder why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college ... -defined impact on your college applications. You can spend all day trying to define

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  ... "Things I Discovered About Myself as it Relates to the Artsy Stuff I Have in My Life...". But "Life as an Artist" has a better ring to it, don't you ... following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  was offered $100,000 to start her own company based on her research ... to the newest data from this past year's admissions cycle. We always try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  . Check out hacks.mit.edu for more, and here's info on the book Nightwork ... First up, The Economist profiled Professor Gruber's research on ... from Bono's visit to MIT to discuss poverty research. Here's Bono with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  potato soup, made and dictated by Cory and based heavily on this soup ... whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... minutes.   Let the soup cool enough that it is safe to handle. Food process

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016