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• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  'm only doing all of these things in the first place is because i care about ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  ) pressure to make the most out of that last summer before college. To explore ... ’ve spent the past fourteen days traveling back in time to the blissful years ... incredibly lucky to have my aunt with me at the time. Her instincts kicked in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  of the biggest events I'm looking forward to is JULY FOURTH! Boston is ... cues given throughout the show is over 2,500. - The required time to load ... eight days. For the "live" portion the load-in is four days. - The total

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at ... ). The idea is not to play hero and to attack a mugger with a gun who would ... 've been TAing this IAP) is tomorrow evening, and I am excited. The teams

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  're getting dressed in the winter. Layering is key, but you don't want to over ... flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken ... lot of the material covered in 6.046 is dense, very fast-paced, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with ... show! One of the most amazing parts of 2.009 is the final presentation

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T ... derailed the T and smashed it into the dome in order to destroy its newly ... ? Also, all the captions to all the pictures of it showing up online and in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is ... from Kellen. I don't know why I felt the needed to copy and paste it in ... .091 Part II This is, again, something I typed to memorize on the way to a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  >?  I just have no idea - there's to much exciting and wonderful in the ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... all the magic in-between dealing with proposals, funding, and listings

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets ... to tell everybody in the floor lounge while we ate our Chinese food. I ... , but also how they'd built it in the hallway and nobody had been able to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  Eric Lander is the role model. He “played a pioneering role in all ... in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries of the first ... a couple students to wipe the giant blackboard in 26-100, our lecture

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... school, a mile from the old city plaza. In the days leading up to Christmas ... , the way I'm talking to you right now. My next blog post, in one week

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  about research he said, "The one thing all the sciences have in common is that there are still no answers to the most basic questions. Physics ... to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  -related news, the productivity geek in me decided to try out an entirely new note ... There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  's memorial in D.C. This is one of the most respectful pictures we took during ... starting to think I'd never find the warm live-in community that so many people seemed to have in college--but I ended up making friends with the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  (MAS.S65). In the classs, grad students would be exposed to various ... I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman ... with the Men In Black Headquarters, except without aliens (for now

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  screenings of older movies every Thursday night. This week, the free movie is The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety ... at another restaurant in Downtown Crossing. The lines begin to

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who ... hands. From outside, I could see how the latch had to be adjusted in order ... . The man asked what Lucas is majoring in (physics) and said something

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014