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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to ... and i hope to see you guys there." In the same comments section, Fiona ... . Since the Harvard Bridge is so close, and many people actually live in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that ... pouring outside. I didn't want to walk in the rain or call an Uber, so I ... 've eaten at the most in Boston. It's a Greek "fast food" restaurant right

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  -- to what extent outreach is valued in the scientific community." Neil ... question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... public the most, and I call up colleagues if I don't know much about it. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  them in vivo. But as cool as it is to simulate circuit designs, the goal ... , but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short ... matrix multiplication (which is used heavily in machine learning). On the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  -deprived). the idea in this paper is that we can trigger oscillations to target and ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before ... . (the most plausible explanation for why they did better on the tasks is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  say the white space is actually just equivalent to my 28 hours of work ... My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... classes and the junior core classes. Pretty much [annotation note

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  that MISTI is one mens et manus answer to the "study broad" buzz word in ... in the Peking Duck - Beijing's most famous dish. Over dinner, we ... them. They're only "in season" during the summer. You can buy 4 of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world ... -competitors from the annual international solar car race to collaborate in designing ... have the potential to play key roles in energy innovation. In addition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  essayists, as I believe video essays to be the most digestible and accessible ... introduced by Ikea, the Korall Fisk, to a picture taken in 2006. Then in 2008 ... in streams to the point where it reached #32 on the Billboard 100

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  students who are matching in the same year are guaranteed to be ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3 ... way to get my passport to the west coast in 24 hours (mainly, I wasn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... to Not Choke” sign in the faces of boba-slurping patrons. I love the ... reverently flock to indulge in the likes of banana green curry bread, chorizo

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  here. One of the most interesting parts of the game, in my opinion, is ... she attempts to summit the treacherous titular mountain. There is a lot ... about in CJ's amazing post on Celeste), but the plot point I want to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... into the wrong exam hall, I said "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this ... adventure in itself: Alan is reliable and has always submitted my letters on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... there, we wandered to the Reading Terminal Market, which is apparently ... veritable feast--eat your heart out, Rachael Ray. This is the most exciting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  /geometry (hopefully). Much of the material from this section is drawn from Michael Hartl ... the single most iconic mathematical object. From the t-shirts with pi to Pi Day celebrations on March 14th to the Simpsons, even. Pi is a number

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would ... T to HMart with my little grocery tote in hand. Walking across the ... Brothers Marketplace in the evening to stock up on milk and eggs. [caption

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  placed the buttons in a way that was most comfortable for me to hold. Only ... -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are ... .2060 is that we get to build the circuits and code that power these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... me, had crossed the ocean to attend university in the States - but they ... didn't have the energy to fall apart in front of a near

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  starring in "The Man With The Screaming Brain," he also found time to write ... was in town (and she is the one of the biggest Xena fans in all recorded ... to drive in downtown Boston, ever. Also, right after work is rush hour

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word ... pretty much the same thing. But in the second example, "going to" isn't an ... So, here it is, the inaugural post in my new book review blog idea

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006