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Blog / Academics & Research
The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work
adjustment period, full of trial and error, just as it was intended to be. IAP ... . My team and I first attempted to create a virtual reality platform to ... stuck behind TVs and trees, and the only way to exit the game was to reset -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals
. Many classes occupy our time in other ways, whether essays, reports ... platform, which is MIT’s online learning environment, built on edX. Many ... ! Those psets are scary. Q: Doesn’t that facilitate trial-by-error or guess -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.
way around the playing surface, recognize other opponents, and ... : There are two starting corners and then three slots along each wall. The slots are painted black so the robot can see them. Next to each slot is a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share
previews of new research or personal reflections on prior trials or experiments ... that one bet they made. Incidentally, I heard my first faculty bet story ... the P versus NP Millenium Problem told me about the bet for an ounce of -
Blog / Miscellaneous
today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become
. iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... chips at a casino. I forget I am squandering something real. v. I -
Blog / Miscellaneous
“The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!
could change the way you think about air travel. It's the Aeroscraft, and ... as luxury staterooms, restaurants, even a casino. To minimize noise -
Blog / Academics & Research
To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.
kiddie pool of water and teach him that there's a platform he can swim to ... quickly that he should find the platform and get out of the pool and get a ... mean and nasty biologist that you are, you switch the visible platform -
Blog / Admissions
US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…
Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot ... Abercrombie & Fitch? I'm willing to bet that not one of my questions is -
Blog / Admissions
Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls
, "Slam is a safe place." In some important ways, so is MIT. If you don't end up feeling that way, then reach out to people - you will find ... , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way -
Blog / Residential Life
A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!
are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one ... support, some kind of platform... but what did that really entail? Mentally ... way longer than it should've to get right; the haphazard bed slats -
Blog / IAP
[Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures
, and host “learning festivals” at local schools along the way. Though I ... thought about it before, but it seemed like a perfect way to really see a ... across Europe. It seemed like the perfect way to get into bike trekking -
Blog / Personal Travel
Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft
have a memorial for the Salem Witch Trials’ 20 victims (if you don ... nightly spooky tours. And kid-friendly “reenactments” of the Trials. Absolutely horrifying! The worst part was that the Salem Witch Trials were -
Blog / Academics & Research
How To Make (almost) Anything
hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old ... / n) - d for some d. After a few trials, I settled on d = 0.4mm -
Blog / MIT Life
Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.
speech in (a free trial of) Final Cut Pro, which was the only video editing ... not have pondered before but I bet now need to know the answer to: what -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.
wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I ... learned back when I was first on my way to MIT, as well as things that I ... (which you absolutely loved), and you thought to yourself, "Hey, I bet that -
Blog / Events
Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.
room, and the stubborn ExpressionEngine blogging platform with which I am ... ." And by beating them in such an emphatic way, it wasn't just a triumph ... [source: IsNateSilverAWitch.com] All of this is a very long-winded way to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!
seemed like a solid second bet. Besides, I’m out here to gather new skills ... . It’s a skill you have to develop through practice, trial and error ... apprenticeship, she made 100 mugs and 100 faces. That seemed like a fantastic way -
Blog / Academics & Research
Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms
into an online learning platform, MITx. MITx allows educators to develop ... platform is the main source of learning. For others, it allows a blend of ... within the platform are: Problem-solving and conceptual videos (see