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• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  by one to announce their prizes. While HackMIT gave out the main prizes ... quit my second. By 7 am, I had formed a new team with an old friend ... announced the winners of the top prizes, followed by the company sponsored

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  syntax because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Yet, by the end of 6 ... -functioning **by “I’d built” I mean “they wrote most of the code with a few sections ... class, surrounded by very generously donated Daydream headsets and Pixel

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  frantically typing up essays fueled by caffeine and a tinge of desperation. Each ... --it's okay. Keep in mind that these essays are by you and about you, so "I" and ... admit that what I submitted was not my best writing by a long shot. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  the hackathon were going by fast, as the first round sold out eight ... biomass. Artveoli miniaturized the photobioreactor by using microfluidic ... pm but I had to be back in Boston by 5 to help set up for the MIT $100K

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  some networking followed by a Q&A panel. Afterwards, the attendees ... Ventures led our panel, and he opened up by asking the VC's, "What was the ... ; Afterwards, we listened to some of the pitches from the audience, followed by

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  , innocent kitty that has definitely not been animated by Satan himself.. when ... build a decent relationship with him by verbally reciprocating the ... been changed to avoid incrimination by PETA. But uh, yeah. Be safe out

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Talent Show to get judged by future students, but still, they do. The ... !   (a modern Doge Shantytown built in the East Campus courtyard by ... crimson and sparkly - my first hair color modification ever, inspired by MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  they need to be heard by more people. Here is her original post. This ... Sunday morning, by a short and somber email from our housemaster. words on ... -based class. we work our way through in-class problems by talking with our

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had ... thoroughly soaked and cold and happy. The river was concealed by a cover of ... East celebrated by watching a compilation of propaganda. But actually, it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  constricted greatly by where you live, because all of the dorms with dining ... are followed around by vague, shadowy silhouettes of impending doom ... and lament every opportunity cost that you pass by. In short, you will

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  strangely true. Going even further back, posts by bloggers of yore recall ... . (I blame it on Yan and on ultra-dense social subnetworks encouraged by ... posts by Jess, Mitra, and Sam, and said yes when I got a tube in the mail

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his ... shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my ... Dogs [my brother swears by these. I'm more skeptical.] Rice Medley

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  informed by cheesy holiday movies and distant memories of childhood days ... lot to me. I just hope that by the end of our four years here, or by

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  open to make omelet, shrieking vegetables chopped into tiny pieces by ... celebrated for their virtues, Milk receives annual homage by all other Random ... sit side-by-side and tell stories of decade-long fermentation, bacterial

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  semester. The class meets jointly with a similar one offered by the course 20 ... Systems Sensory systems is co-taught by faculty from MIT and Harvard Medical ... were influenced by cultural beliefs. Did you know that comparative

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful ... session. The MIT PE department lets you make up an absence by attending a ... giving up on using their weights. One by one, weights clunked to the ground

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  where this guy says he was trained from birth to withstand pain by ... (which I appreciated) but I was almost at the top by that point and figured ... had a dream that I got shot by an assassin, but he shot the RIGHT side

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  ingredients, I can now vary up what I eat by whipping up the following: Scrambled eggs Omelettes Salads (I know, not incredibly hard by itself ... notion related to and affirmed by an experience in real time. Also, prior

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Pleasant Gap. The town revolves around Penn State, is surrounded by farms ... high school, when I was lucky to be introduced to genomics by Dr ... found out this morning that the Tacocopter, invented by the super amazing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  have been greeted by anyone ever. Anyway, after class, I asked Flourish ... deeply intertwined! When I was a teenager, I was contacted by Henry Jenkins ... , even though I knew I could be a "fan for a living" by studying fans in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011