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• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga defacing my MIT ID with a permanent marker. Be warned: the ... will “soon” release a fully-digital camera with the capability to print ... submit that the slogan of the company's reincarnation should be, “Polaroid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  " and mine tend to be more of the breakfast variety. Each semester during ... my expectations. Will I be returning for another year, you might ask. In truth, I wouldn't miss it for the world! And yes, I'll be making

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  to be happy and successful but I am a little insecure with the high ... . I have read countless times that MIT wants you, the applicant, to "be ... communicated with the soccer coach here at MIT. To be sure though, I'd ask Matt

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  officially my favorite hack ever of my time at MIT thus far. It may not be the ... has ended, November is here (cue winter!) and soon the cold weather will ... can name quite a few of the hundreds of really unimportant characters

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  was a most busy and miserable day that can be summarized in one sentence ... ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn't injure myself again, but it still just ended up being a long, long, long

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  [caption id="attachment_105508" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The ... up with Gen Zalpha slang, or people who are reading this in the far ... . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  and spends three weeks in a village in a developing country. I will be heading to northern India, while others will be going to places as far and ... class of the series), you build your own technology that could be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting ... trying so hard to do well in school, be productive in the summers and you ... - where people are reconciling the pragmatic need to be employed with the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  ? Later in the semester we'll be using these to create aluminum molds to ... the potential to be a really nice product, something that I could keep ... another? Potentially, the code is all there. Will I make many awesome things

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  how the content will perform, how it stacks up to other people writing on the same subject, how commenters (!!!) will respond. Autumn in D ... writing stems from the author being passionately curious about whatever he

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  , Everardo, is Mexican, and her mother, Leslie, is white. She will be the first ... engineering and math. Flores will enter the Massachusetts Institute of ... would be thrilled if she got the national recognition, she said. "It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... background, and are willing to help undergrads get the research experience and ... remember to include that. Get to the point Don't be too shy to say that you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  will be teaching a three-week class on the impact of design and a one ... , why CAN'T I be on the other side of the world during IAP? Why MUST I do ... -two students, myself included, will be heading to Jeju Island, Korea and teaching

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the ... DID YOU KNOW? The late Strom Thurmond filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  article. This was the line that struck me: Hasbro will be showing off the ... . The show is claimed by the promoters to be the largest toy trade show in ... to be a member of the TIA (Toy Industry Association). I wasn't. The

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... neuroscientist (or your parents) will tell you, your brain does need sleep in order ... up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT with all the numbers, which will probably take forever, so bear with me ... : Collect 60 free t-shirts. I’m expecting this to be one of the easier ones. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  all the things I love. I will also be back at MGH soon to volunteer so ... start of the project), while always being on top of his experiments and ... colleagues in the lab a lot of questions and take a lot of notes. Never be

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  artists would be much more inspired by the challenges of Seamless smart ... being on Project Runway, and get ahead of the game! And the game is just ... workshop, and there will of course be build nights), and good luck traversing

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  it, all the hard aspects of Zoom U would be far harder. All these ... the reality that our Fall isn’t gonna be anything like “normal”  or amazing, I thought of how many things will be suboptimal and foreign. Yet

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020