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• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  . Sure, I could accept responsibility for my own poor sense of direction, but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... train for the 15-or-so passengers making the connection. So, I guess I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents ... National Real Estate Investor reports that "a green building can pay for ... -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  include great textbooks for gifted math students, an active and interactive forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems ... students for the purpose of exploring math. On the Saturday morning that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for ... 'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab for the rest of eternity. There are two things I consider to be the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  . that i make time for like 6 hours of DnD every week. that i've taken up ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... enjoy the leftovers for many meals this week. [caption id

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -speed telecommunications. I signed up for the class because I really enjoyed its ... If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class ... field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... background, and he delivered lectures on joinery, finishing, and casting. For ... time but not pick up many new skills, since I already had experience with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of ... who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  up for the quilt, but that night was a really great memory and belongs ... , and of course, Career Fair. These shirts pile up in your wardrobe slowly ... started slowly packing up my room again in November. At this point, I could

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  wait up for me. The bar had a catered event with free pizza, and it was a ... his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide ... they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... spring, I learned what math was for computer scientists, as 6.042 brought ... and making screens light up like magic. Then I started to realize that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  table is up for grabs. In this case, my 119th birthday cake (it's not a ... On the day before my non-senior friends left for home, we went out on ... wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  array. Each pixel is made up of three subpixels: one for red light, one ... 's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook-for ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write ... each poem was written to. I didn't manage to write for every single

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  here?" But that sets you up for a fantastic response. What do you call a ... terms of what kind of jobs to look for, that's up to you. You're only ... about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  involved putting up posters, broadcasting public health announcements through ... interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... plus. We told her we'd be back on Wednesday for the WASH cluster meeting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... thought about the word indeed for a while too, and then I leisurely reached

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work ... . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  Time for some more questions: MIT App Mom asked: "Maybe it's just me ... for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... this blog template for me, he named it "Life of a Tecker" after the first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005