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• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  are realizing what it means to be in the center of all this vibrant ... to see the world and take in the fresh air and ride that bike and surf ... routine is what makes the darn thing so compelling to begin with! Oh, boy

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  mostly in brick and mortar stores to avoid contributing to the labor ... made the apple sauce."]having too much to do to be able to make ... Culture in Sci-Fi Worlds. The topic this week is “Resources, Territory, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  video series intended to debunk the myth that blood is red in your ... workshops with guest lecturers to teach us about the style of edX platforms or ... the most unique biology classes I've taken here thus far. If 7.s390 is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world ... -competitors from the annual international solar car race to collaborate in designing ... have the potential to play key roles in energy innovation. In addition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  -- to what extent outreach is valued in the scientific community." Neil ... question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... public the most, and I call up colleagues if I don't know much about it. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to ... and i hope to see you guys there." In the same comments section, Fiona ... . Since the Harvard Bridge is so close, and many people actually live in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  that MISTI is one mens et manus answer to the "study broad" buzz word in ... in the Peking Duck - Beijing's most famous dish. Over dinner, we ... them. They're only "in season" during the summer. You can buy 4 of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  -deprived). the idea in this paper is that we can trigger oscillations to target and ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before ... . (the most plausible explanation for why they did better on the tasks is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  say the white space is actually just equivalent to my 28 hours of work ... My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... classes and the junior core classes. Pretty much [annotation note

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... to Not Choke” sign in the faces of boba-slurping patrons. I love the ... reverently flock to indulge in the likes of banana green curry bread, chorizo

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that ... pouring outside. I didn't want to walk in the rain or call an Uber, so I ... 've eaten at the most in Boston. It's a Greek "fast food" restaurant right

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  them in vivo. But as cool as it is to simulate circuit designs, the goal ... , but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short ... matrix multiplication (which is used heavily in machine learning). On the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  essayists, as I believe video essays to be the most digestible and accessible ... introduced by Ikea, the Korall Fisk, to a picture taken in 2006. Then in 2008 ... in streams to the point where it reached #32 on the Billboard 100

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  here. One of the most interesting parts of the game, in my opinion, is ... she attempts to summit the treacherous titular mountain. There is a lot ... about in CJ's amazing post on Celeste), but the plot point I want to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... there, we wandered to the Reading Terminal Market, which is apparently ... veritable feast--eat your heart out, Rachael Ray. This is the most exciting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  students who are matching in the same year are guaranteed to be ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3 ... way to get my passport to the west coast in 24 hours (mainly, I wasn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  /geometry (hopefully). Much of the material from this section is drawn from Michael Hartl ... the single most iconic mathematical object. From the t-shirts with pi to Pi Day celebrations on March 14th to the Simpsons, even. Pi is a number

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... into the wrong exam hall, I said "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this ... adventure in itself: Alan is reliable and has always submitted my letters on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would ... T to HMart with my little grocery tote in hand. Walking across the ... Brothers Marketplace in the evening to stock up on milk and eggs. [caption

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022