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• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  who stop at yellow lights, sums of squares, Craig Armstrong, navy blue ... post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like ... , so here's a revised version: Here goes: I'm Mitra, class of 2007

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  !). At the end of a recent class, she took us on a tour of the Language Lab ... :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019 ... of MIT's Teaching & Learning Lab and Bernd is the associate

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  of the TATS CRU will be at MIT throughout the week, giving guest ... than 40 years. Some of the previous Artists in Residence have included ... Toni Morrison, Author Gregory Hines, Dancer Several of my friends had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  time I dropped it at a bus stop in the middle of northern Italy one night ... my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle-of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  would have said at the end of last semester. I still like the time ... at learning from books -- and I'm very jealous of them! 3. Katie '10 ... Last time, Jon asked, What kind of high school student were you? Did

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... of 9 externs at Brain Power, 3 in Web Development, 3 in Product

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

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense ... feeling of ziplining through the trees. [image_row images="42907 ... using [annotation note="This gives me a lot of nostalgia: https

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ourselves. We don't look at each other competitively- I've honestly never felt

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  syrup. sorry !"]maple syrup.[/annotation]At risk of sounding like an ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  have had to learn anyway, at some point along the way: so many of us are ... , to feel several different kinds of grief all at once, to pay even 10 ... One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  at a distance. Here’s a short (and apologetically low quality) video of ... is at a final presentation and tech fair type of event:   But ... I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  called my parents, who are looking at houses. lots of moving parts ... quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  was hosted at the MIT Museum, catered (with zero waste, of course) by ... defined by their mastery of rare tools, but by their mastery of common tools. Yet since rarity of skill and rarity of tools are so often and easily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  This semester, almost all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays ... ?) Besides the plenitude of classrooms, some of Building 4's most enjoyable ... for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  of nowhere Bryan: a piano fell out of the sky Diana: HAHA Bryan ... good friends of mine got it all started again and threw one off the ... a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  , Nick '09, Zak '09, and Ross '09. I took some pictures at the East Campus ... Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... the chapel and it lasted five minutes instead of 25), East Campus built

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... research.[/annotation] Mind you, how could I not? Over 90% of MIT students ... undergraduate research, also what this happens to be about."]UROP[/annotation] at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... if we add more vectors?) Let’s look at the tiles. Each of the tiles is ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  fall. People are good at calibrating on the physical level of risk they ... kept this instinct of natural fear and uncertainty for months even at MIT ... objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023