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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  six steps, set ups, and a number of other breakdancing moves. After ... made my way down to Chinatown, where I went shopping crazy for my peeps back home. I brought home a Chinese newspaper and a few gifts for my

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... Sloan faculty heard the desires of the MIT community for a recognized

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  quick lunch, then come back here to soak up the internet. And be lazy ... day, then I'm catching the redeye to Boston at 10 PM. Look for me to answer a bunch of questions later today. For right now, I just want to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  the Men's Ice Hockey game for a little Marching Band on Ice action and ... liberated from solid food for the rest of my life by an errant puck. Yes, we ... I think he deserves some credit for the whole affair. And we got

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  couple of examples. Take for example, 18.02, Multivariable Calculus, a ... . Now here's my take on all this (feel free to ask around for other ... the problem sets live up to their names a bit more. They're problems

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  /Senior Haus/Random Hall (I'm not sure Bexley showed up) Rush party, "Distant Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... (or burning, for that matter), there was just a lot of evaporating

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... lending a book out can approach $2 for some libraries; printing out a black ... organization runs up against technical barriers that seem insurmountable, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech ... speed-dating conversations. He can now predict the verdict for 80 per cent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... talking about vaginas in front of a large audience. For an audience member ... fundraising ideas, meet the rest of the cast, and then strip to lingerie for a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I have been traveling around for MD-PhD program interviews, which is one of ... numerical response (or even a string of numbers.) For example, --Laura might

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  /26/2012 00:47-2:17 Adventures in Neverland Never grow up! Peter Pan fights ... Pancakes. Why are we up this late? To feed you pancakes of course! Pancakes ... has room for! Read the title. You're all bright kids.  Foo 11

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  for MITAdmissions Math Month, and thusly there will be some math. And ... _y(x,y) = y$. See the below diagram for further clarity. [caption id ... : Yes. For every point in $\pi_x(A)$, we can draw the corresponding line

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but ... acronym for Original Pilipino Music. It's a catchall term for Philippine pop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  cool I guess.” Well, Joe, I’m pleased to announce that for my 6 ... reach the bottom of the screen. I chose Guitar Hero for this project for several reasons: It’s dynamic, fun, and one of my favourite

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around ... approaching (of couse, after the horrifying super intense final week for people ... Cambridge.) SIGH. I will look like a zombie for 2 months ☹ But it’s okay

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... find that this is even more so the case for people whose parents had ... people in other fields, too, but we’ll see. For now, I’ll just start with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  ) family got to make the trip up from Missouri to see me for Family Weekend ... -year-old-brother) likes to come up here is to play in the Simmons Hall ball pit: (I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  'date rooms,' in which people generally lock themselves up during exam ... for dinner five days a week (Sunday - Thursday, except during IAP ... :) If you take the East Tower elevator up to the East Penthouse, this is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  professors argue for their favorite Jewish delicacy – either Latke or ... Hamentashen picture, standing up.) After a humorous introduction by Wolfe and a ... team would be the first to present. Prof. Dourmaskin stepped up to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  it for three months! This is like the time Tony Randall died and I didn ... placed them in hundreds of identical bowls lined up in a cathedral, which ... climbed up this scenic hill to see the chateau. As a bonus, we got this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006