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• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... the image we end up seeing, but if you modeled rendering that way, you'd waste a lot of computation because most photons wouldn't end up making it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I print out past exams for my next three organic chemistry and genetics

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  for 36 hours and then wake up and microwave some leftovers and spend the ... from the masses purely for comic relief. But what drives us bloggers and ... through our scientifically rigorous work, for the sole purpose of clearing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... until commencement. Unfortunately, those were three weeks for my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  saw Alina when she came to pick up students for tours after sessions ... makes sense when you think about it. I arrived on campus for freshman ... need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  images and digitize its public image. (Grapevines for the curious: Polaroid ... instant Polaroids just like Grandma used to do for her scrapbook. I still ... I will skip, except to note that one of the proposed designs for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  . Small things add up here. Where you study can make a huge difference, for ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... warmer locale than Boston. Unfortunately for them, I am currently sitting

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  do so likewise this year for you all EA'ers! *[ also = もう一度　いつまでも - though I don't think it will show up on the URL =p] Can't believe it ... enjoyable drama (to waste time on while procrastinating for psets, lol =p) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... crystalline side-chain block copolymers for actuator applications". That's a bunch of big words for a simple idea. 1: Attach liquid crystals (the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  while I was hosed it really doesn't look like I'd put up my next entry to until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... six chapters for my first exam on Tuesday. So, there'll be an entry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a couple hundred geeks. Luckily, MIT wanted to pay for my trip to CPW, so I went there with this “what the heck, they’re paying for it so

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  an MIT professor, Rodney Brooks. To pay for research, the start-up ... the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in steering the Human Genome Project to completion. Heading up the Broad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell and she is responsible for some of the biggest lessons that I ... a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... ethnicity openly and honestly. Don't just play up the school's strengths, but

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan ... working on the same puzzle for the last 4 hours answers the phone. "Hello

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  college card, which, as you've been told many times before, is given FOR ... "Symphonie Fantastique"--the one that got him hooked up with actress Harriet ... at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  -9-9-9." Went to sleep at 9:30 every night because staying up past 10:00 was a ... spent 2 months preparing for it and was so depressed when I got 116, 4 ... dormmates come up: "Hey Chris, good morning! You're up early today

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , and as I enter, the all-wood space opens up to a giant staircase that I run up, two steps at a time. The colorful squares covering the walls on ... ="104830" /] As the school year progresses, I find myself leaving Simmons for class

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  in hopes of catching up to my current life. For example, I have a good ... for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as I'm typing this now, I should be packing for my Chicago flight that

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  mixed up. I've been reflecting on the changes in bits 'n' pieces as the ... different. A lot of things are simpler: splitting up fridge space, figuring ... 's shifted how I approach leaving the house. I can't just go home for lunch

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all ... no door painting for me that year. Or the next. This blog post is the ... complete psets and exams remotely. They were also super fun for drawing on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022