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• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , sitting on my bed typing a blogpost. I've started waking up way too early ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me ... from). Waking up this early was a change. One I didn't intend on, but a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

   Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is ... it out. Then I got banned from Wikipedia for vandalism. I’m not ... Gary Wang both attended MIT, my current institution—it has stirred up

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  required were completely different. You could not simply scale up my ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while i wasn’t sure. most technical work doesn’t feel like magic to me - for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was ... simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of ... a staple for the part of China my dad is from. The food was great, but

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  besides, there are so many Zoom gatherings for frosh and upperclassmen to ... shows even though zoom calls. I have classes that will keep me up into the ... tell me to shut up. I’ll learn many things: chemistry, physics, and Greek

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  We spent our IAPs in two different states, for the second time. We ... interested in, but are not sure if you want to pursue. Or, it’s also great for ... oftentimes very competitive summer internship cycles. And if you end up not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  , because it is a truly angsty experience that has been in the works for almost a year -- prime real estate for data analysis! When we suggested this idea to Charlotte, she actually started jumping up and down and did

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this ... almost inescapable. I wanted to increase opportunities for the MIT ... ’s worked on this initiative for the past year has seen the need for voter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... BeaconStreet, all of which are organizations I've volunteered for in the past before I ... the headset. When I pulled up a 3D graph of stock market forecasts, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all ... German??!! (I recommend Duolingo for all your language-learning needs.) Learn how to adult (Wait, am I actually telling you to prepare for college

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  ) up a general interface for dealing with sets: I chose to define a card ... cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the ... of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... they’re hosting me here in Marburg with ~35 other grantees for a six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  and plan on going this year. It’s freaking awesome.) I woke up at ... 10-250 for the keynote. The lanyard has The Behemoth logo on it ... with warm fuzzy creative feels, I met up with my friends Jamal E. ’13 and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... how scholarly my future can be, or looking at internships to apply for ... up and up again. Now what? After what I went through, I think a lot

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  life update to catch you all up to speed.   Hair   If I ... college, finishing up his degree in supply chain management, still ... , computers were always my brother's thing. Growing up I would spend my internet

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  redundant, apparently). When school starts back up it's like a whirlwind of ... every year for a few years, I suppose it's supposed to signify the first ... Bloggers for bloggers. Until that point, a lot of bloggers never crossed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... , but that doesn't do any justice to the individual ups and downs I ... . For those of you who haven't applied already, I strongly recommend that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  location for current MIT students to show off their work. Exhibits are ... Computers for Uganda, an organization based in Seattle, Washington, that ... . After spending weeks in lab helping put a paper together for SIGGRAPH, I

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are ... /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... then load them onto the mills/lathes. Then the tool does all the work for

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  I've been involved, in some form or fashion, with MIT Admissions for ... opportunity to learn about yourself." Students sometimes get so wrapped up in ... , and it'll be up to you to decide what goes on there. If at the end you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009