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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  being convinced that it was the most boring thing I've ever had to read ... the heck out! But I'm sure if anyone is learning a lot from robots, it ... dreams because all I wanted is to have any job, and not live in the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... Claus, Miley Cirus......, it really doesn't matter who is writing out the ... interests; SUPER! Kudos to you. However, if it doesn”t relate to your intended

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  quite reasonable time to wake up - and, really, it wasn't that bad. But compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . How could it seem so real to them? I closed my eyes again. Don't you ... ? Don't you know the sky is the same here? Don't you see it? The base of ... . Or intelligent. Or determined. But it is just a crosswalk. And some

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however ... a lot to accomplish, yeah it was. Fortunately, we had a team of eleven

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or myspace? um, you are currently reading it General 004. What is your height ... mutt 015. Your fears? death, it sucks 016. Goal you would like to achieve

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  -Year Program students. This is an opportunity for us to tell the staff what we ... technical setting, but it amazes me to see how the lessons have reached into ... that effect, and I don’t want to let it go. And before anyone scoffs to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  know, with things so bright and so bleak, that this is what you have to ... little sad, but mostly, it makes me want to take a couple years off between college and grad school (haha). Then, I try to imagine what it would have

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  , cite a theorem, and turn it in. Well, that is exactly what I did, and I ... taken a class and gotten so much out of it before. I did start going to my ... , it was honestly humbling to look back at all my failures of somewhat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  other stereotypical conclusion to which people jump is psychology). My ... tissue is induced, and how it is determined, molecularly, which cells ... is language unique to humans; why are there many languages; how do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  around telling people I wanted to be a cancer researcher. It sounded so ... . There was only one problem. Saying I want to be a “cancer researcher” is ... enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it’s

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 ... Corridor. I can't seem to make it to my office in the morning without ... get home when it's dark and late with barely enough time to put

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... 40 minutes late. It's kind of disconcerting to wake up on a bus in ... like this anyway, it was raining when I got to Maine, but I nevertheless

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  -messy-maze that is applying to college), it was that we didn’t give into our initial ... gravity is inversely proportional to distance (okay technically distance ... heavy it began to feel. We began to think about the whole thing more

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  ones where I know the founders. It really exciting to know their story ... tried to make it more casual and went back in and updated the draft over ... to do it again sometime.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  who wrote scripts (computer programs) to "stuff" the ballot box. It ... are electrically identical. When nothing is connected to their terminals ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with ... backstroke.) Learning to play the harmonica.  Not bad, but it could

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  will also be difficult, as it is for any teacher, to keep the whole class ... product a success when it sold to the teachers or to the schools. What about ... their products to determine if they were successful. It struck me that, in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  good at learning it - it takes forever and a day to understand everything ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I ... this work entails is obviously understandable to at least one person

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007