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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  There are many things in life that require you to have the ever ... . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it not once but TWICE because I was deferred the first time around in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  timeline is a little hard to explain just because sooooo much happened, but I ... that even though I loved my family, I needed to be with East Campus folk ... almost-equally-clueless college students, and we needed to figure it out

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  still remember how to integrate -- you'll need 18.02 knowledge for 5 ... , feel free to email!) 2. Sulinya asked, Hey Mollie, how long does it ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  There are some things that only make sense to you once you're living it, that you can't understand until they happen to you. And then there are some things that, even while they're happening, you can't begin to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  friends and I needed to follow a very detailed and specific set of ... MIT is famous for? It also needs to be named after a tectonic plate ... scaffolds, which can then be used to carry cells for repairing tissue. Once

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike ... kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price would be. Fortunately, we were allowed to give a little paragraph about

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  is called a footprint, which needs to be specified for each component ... direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... . It's fun to nerd out about the mathematical intricacies of poi spinning

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  focus on people and not worry about needing to go pset or make it to ... IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you want your time to have formal structure, MIT provides opportunities to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  graduates" who needed the money to pay back all of our student loans. Although, really, thanks to MIT's generous need-based financial aid, I really don't have as much to pay back as you'd expect. My favorite two questions on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  second prize (and $2000) for his work. What, exactly, does Project Naptha ... . Then, using some nifty image processing, it allows you to remove that ... an Easter egg that gives the selected text an animation. It does all of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  the needed direction at the same time. We got to see a small demo ... , much like ripping off human skin to toss into a laundry machine, but ... sweat and dust particles, but steam does. Being abundant and quick to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  , he likes to set things on fire, and he once hooked a rather powerful ... I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to ... Thermodynamics, we got four review sheets for the final. I know someone once

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  does it feel like to be one of the richest people in the world?' I'm way ... today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him :) (Thank you, Dave!!) He was scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m., but the doors

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  Technique If you need more convincing as to why HackMIT is a must ... from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th ... is the weekend to meet other enthusiastic hackers, push your boundaries

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  back to the bean Pre-Entre Salad: To begin my much needed #springbreak ...   To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog ... #springbreak2011 Adventures to keep your taste buds tingling with excitement

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  you don't need to take. So, here's how it goes. Physics: The GIRs are ... .014 for math majors. YOU DON'T NEED TO TAKE IT IF YOU ARE NOT A MATH MAJOR ... blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  (me!) and the Baker's Wife (Eva) are just realizing that they need to ... note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts ... to sing, and, accordingly, put people into various duos and trios that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  -Fi comforting. I don't need to white knuckle my way through the slow, relaxed ride ... person adapted to a new environment in ways I don’t even fully notice much ... MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  sand that we taught to add numbers (much, much better than humans can do ... synonymous with “we needed a science word to make our thing sound more ... …) There’s not much I can (or want to) say about them because… yeah, they

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  we can have a safe relationship" "I want to become a teacher. We need ... be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to ... . But very few observations and reflections. So much happened over the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019