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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  risen from their beds when the indoor humidity had dropped to forty ... , the beds were fixing themselves. Waves and then ripples progressed from the center to the edges of the bed, taking wrinkles and dirt with them

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... !" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the ... Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... . In fact, you’d only need to keep track of one thing, the running sum

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  the good that Marilee has brought to our office and to our field, and we ... wanted to write to you as soon as possible. It's a very sad day for MIT ... when we've had the chance to digest it further, but right now we

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  : school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  gathered to recognize and remember Glorianna Davenport's 30-years of research ... upon using media to understand what people see and experience. She ... collections to construct new stories to share with others. Storytelling

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  waved away every accomplishment I ever made by chalking it up to ... than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets ... , saying "According to Mr. Nance, everyone who is accepted is qualified, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  here are interested all kinds of different fields, from anime to manga. What is there to study here that isn't Technology? It turns out, due to ... to as simply 'Technology.' "]Technology[/annotation] to flourish

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... athletes were held to a lesser standard than everyone else. This was ... really enjoyed the ability to participate in sports without it taking over

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  exposure to the field. I’ll try to give a brief overview of some nanotech ... explore the field is to get a UROP in one of the many labs that do nanotech ... studying the field in college. At a recent admitted student event (*shout out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you ... think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... 'll probably miss you, and you're excited because the airport you're going to has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  entered the field of biology in order to make or find something that can ... up if you decide to go into the field. So, in biology there are two ... stayed in the field is because I still want to help people, and I have

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  . If she was a piercing gust of air, cold and calculating, ready to cut ... will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three ... that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... about recycling, etc. I consider reading it and decide to keep blogging ... typing it out in words if I calculated it in my head right now. Guess I won

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  to stay hydrated in the midst of this record-breaking heat wave. ... DID YOU KNOW? According to this article, Malaysia recently made it illegal to name children after "animals, insects, fruit, vegetables or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband ... , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww

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

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... -studying before I got to school that probably cushioned me from the shock I’d have gotten if I had to learn about natural logs and Euler’s constant and all

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to ... the blogs. Capitalizing the word 'I', being careful not to overextend ... calculated, slower, reasoning System 2. I feel when I type in this kind of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018