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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... Boston and Cambridge from 21 floors up (we had to take TWO elevators). The ... to keep out the wind and rain but be permeable to radio waves. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific ... . Basically, it’s training to become an officer in the U.S. Military. ROTC gives

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... , you might ask? Well, firstly, I need to graduate, and since I began considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  was tested, scrutinized, and pushed to its limits and after many ... heavy or dirty it seemed, and we began the long drive to Hastings ... , we were ready to begin. The American Solar Challenge is a biennial

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the ... around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for ... them to not be conducive to learning. In order to help teachers, we need

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to ... to access your rational, “outside view” shoulder-devil to remember the times you’ve lost your optimism as the semester has unfolded.. to try and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  imagine that they all convened at one place to throw a huge concert, and ... . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a student if I wanted to. (I am, of course, blatantly ignoring the huge mass ... to any other colleges, probably because I hadn't applied to any other

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  Okay, so what I am about to recount for you happened like 2 whole years ago, but it's super awesome and while it's hard to exactly explain ... is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... , which is even later than MIT - Friday, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM - and so while ... was trying to spoon-feed myself solid food again. Now that I've moved

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what ... -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  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 ... tend to suck. Like, not just your average suck. They tend to really suck

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

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his own comments like 2 weeks before I got around to doing it. Way to make ... awesome that MIT allows you to do whatever you like to your room. I really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class ... to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  chapter always angst about this and try to figure out why and what to do ... -Blood Prince. We also got to see the printing presses. I bet most people have never seen a braille printing press before. I seem to have been unable to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... stroll from a campus library back to my dorm—I will bump into at least ... should be more grateful. … It's such a privilege to be here. I'm really

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  attempt at blogging—funnily enough, i only started this writing to apply to ... generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... -ish blog last week. i thought it'd be interesting to post this now—nearly one

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a Cambridge based studio called Gallery 263. I've been to [annotation note ... for a circle of artists to sketch. Life drawing is essential to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023