Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  so much time to study I faced doing an entire 18.06 (Linear Algebra ... but important post (SO MUCH J-LAB TO DO I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND AHHHHHHH ... Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public. (But actually it was awesome, and much like a baby-PAX – a video game ... around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... I don’t have much to say about it, but expect to hear plenty more as ... 's point. Without further ado, allow me to introduce you to... 8.03: Physics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  . Former hotel. Don't know much since I'm not a woman, but seems to house ... (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was ... it's worth saying that for me at least, where you choose to live can be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  's office so I could rant to him about how much I hate the world, or maybe he ... TOTALLY NORMAL and all, and I just didn't want to ruin that.) Snively loves the Internet. Too much. Seriously...that kid is just weird sometimes. He

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can ... could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and entertaining, but right now we would like to emphasis something you should take

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  tear-inducingly beautiful data visualization that you are about to see. The Media Lab is much better at this sort of stuff than I am, after all. I present to you: immersion.media.mit.edu. The Collective Learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... internship at a large defense company and was ready to learn anything and ... science--’Course 6’. So much so, that about a third of my class ended up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  information? I have SO MUCH I want to share with you! A4) I am excited that you ... This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... teaching myself the language Processing, adding to Matlab, Python, VB

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend who's gotten pretty involved with MIT THINK. She asked me to let her ... awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  a much larger problem. How to travel through time! Prof. Fisher: We ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be ... resorted to some fairly ridiculous ways to kill time, including an ongoing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  someone has a little too much wine and gets up on stage and tries to ... In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... looking to dive into a theoretical physics book. Truth be told, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT ... early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... Jojo and Diane, who rocked the reg desk next to us for many hours. After 11 hours at the reg desk, I headed over to Thursday night's opening

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I took an informal survey of people sitting around the lounge to see what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  send it again?!" (Please no.)   The answer to all these ... to see how high I could get the stack. I also have sensitive hands - I ... need a little bit of time - so don't worry, your stuff is here, it

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  that's something for every scientist to aspire to: as much as, if not ... physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to ... . Classic Big Bang theory, this professor likes to say, “says nothing about what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005