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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  up, put them in the order that makes the most sense to read, and ... between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The ... don't know what casing the joint means 2) FRANK WILCZEK IS TALKING TO ME

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Bridge and into one of most famous orchestra halls in the world. This trek ... college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the time, the sole thought running through my head was, "Hey, this is free

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  .  Engage in unhealthy coping mechanisms to try and relieve the emotional ... the most difficult to pull off. It takes time. It takes patience. It ... chose to do the work. We wake up in the morning and before we even get out

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  adventures in EE), I didn't do much this IAP, so I should be able to just knock ... keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think ... stresful. I didn't get much sleep during the last week of IAP (or during the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  it through most of the pre-lab before Kelly came in to tell me that the ... my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see ... spins do matter to the hydrogen atom. If the particles are spinning in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  make you happy, because these tend to be the things that matter the most ... to leave them. For most decisions, the specific details of the pros ... make decisions for you, even if they turn out to be good in the end. Do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... dinners in the fall. Also, this is an old draft. I can now attest that ... in NYC). Thanks to Burchard, I didn't fumble with the knives and forks!

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  to call the final presentations a competition, at least in the usual ... students were always happy to offer solutions and advice.  As it goes in most ... now we finally get to see the parts in real life. If you haven’t seen an

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  don’t always have the time to invest in it. I like teaching people about ... sketch is always attractive; you mentally fill in all the unfinished parts ... , culminating in a very sad, slightly pink (but mostly green) house. I needed to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  today in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our ... up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the ... to help advise creative projects in the office and serve as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a ... them. What you should steep yourself in is the ignorance, in what we don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union ... , but decided to mostly stick with the classics.   MG and I arose ... classroom. We would sit in on each other’s lectures, mostly for the formality

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  the things that I strive to do is blog every week, or at least something close enough to that. I justify it in the sense that, having a regular writing schedule forces me to keep writing, which is the only way I know to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  , and try to produce work which fits into and is in conversation with the ... , and trying to "make the most" of my last semester of college, despite ... plunges through the atmosphere of a planet to slow itself down, in order to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Mystery Hunt 2006. What is Mystery Hunt? Mystery Hunt is one of IAP's most exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT ... on Friday, January 13, 2006. Team registration is now open. Like in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in ... . The best way to describe to you the way I feel about math now is through ... that most people in the class have already learned multivariable calc

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and ... Adam to teach them how to fly model airplanes. In the evening, I ... at UROP minimum wage ($9.00/hr). The second way to be funded is through

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  ability (our obligation) to tackle one of the greatest, most ... email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i ... departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... -Photorealistic Rendering or NPR is a technique in computer graphics used to render 3D models ... . Outlines(not shown in the video) is exactly what it sounds like. And hatching

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  don't tell her enough, but my mom is the most important person in my ... proud I was of our work in the car ride to school. She told me that we ... supportive. How did she know that we weren't going to win? In the end, though

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018