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• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is ... think of it as akin to the astrology apps that have surged in popularity ... them on Github. In the meantime, I'm going to get back to reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  reporting to every day this coming summer is in MADRID. Ohmygod ... your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... ....well, "ashamed" is the closest word I can think of...of the fact that I've lived

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  it is definitely a rule that I have found to be true for me. The reason ... going to take a leap of faith and say that most of the people applying to ... from time to time, and I will give this little tip in the form of a story

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  , the difference between Burlington and Boston is that in Boston the snow ... in the bottle on several occasions. Cambridge is more or less the ... Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to ... becomes cheaper to get it for the whole day, so we threw in a trip to IKEA

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  've changed the homepage video. Gone is MIT: The Motion Picture, retired (appropriately) to the MIT Movies Emeritus page. In its place, you can find "What ... shout-out to Amiina, the band who wrote and recorded the eponymous song

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a ... authorized MIT engineering students could view the challenges. Students were to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  : (This is how I brainstorm most of my doodle entries, for those of you who ... to know is that I love science (and other things, like bluegrass music ... to forget that people have actually managed to pull off the incredible

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... : weekly schedule The first page of my calendar is devoted to my recurring ... [/caption] running todo list The very final page of my planner is the most frequently

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  – to coordinate and support work in the areas of food and agriculture ... to enhance MIT’s role in contributing to the broader discourse on ... providing and preparing the food in your dining halls. This is just another

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the ... pumpkin patch, breathing in the smell of falling leaves and listening to the ... . Despite the rampant snacking, our bags were filled to the brim in no time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... , or which order you chose to draw them in! So without even drawing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... past Monday morning much to my delight. Originally, I kinda didn't take ... , and needless to sasy the project wasn't all about typesetting some

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a ... in at a pathetic and embarrassing two (not counting the two days we get ... not, well that's what I'm going to blame it on. At any rate, the past

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... new award, it is given to the to the 2 year old who best demonstrates ... additional human in our life. Currently we are trying to negotiate the many

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 721. Though they are all different in their own ... , and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  : Applying to college is a terrifying process. The applications are all filled ... ; blogging is dissolving the sterotype like a polar protic solute in dimethyl sulfoxide. Blogging is interrogating multiple professors in the humanities and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I ... As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle just like the Torino medals. A much more close-up shot. You can see the ... stayed in place despite its best efforts to escape. MIT's victory

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... to use the remaining summer time to fall in love with the writing ... no idea how in the world senior year happened. This recently came to my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015