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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -Y mode allows you to visualize how “out of phase” (i.e., out of sync) two ... in mind, let’s see how everything fits together. There are no physically moving parts in this project, thankfully (I’ve learned my lesson

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... high school community. As a result, I didn't fit in with the other people in my class and I consistently felt like my priorities were at odds

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  expressionless.   CAPTION: In the 9th grade… CAPTION: I learned about Bohr ... Bohr atomic model sits in the middle of the panel. The background can be ... moving in this big cloud.   CAPTION: Usually we can guess where they

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this ... past pizza sins I've suffered there, but I suppose I can no longer say ... -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  . Also, I'm going to be in Madrid in 4 days and still don't have an ... 're up to over ten bucks! How crazy is that?! Ben, I think you really are a ... I was lucky enough this semester to have only one final exam, which I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  this in the only way I know how :) [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIxbyMxSrcM[/embed] PS - As I read the previously published blogs, I see a bunch of us have picked up running. I guess that's what happens in your late 20s and 30s.

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... , you can figure out the DNA coding for the receptor. Voila! His UROP in ... when dramatic results come in or are on their way. The anticipation can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  Saturday) in teams of four. It's a good deal: five evenings a week, I have a ... at the next table chimes in with "it's pretty amazing how many people ... really special. Juan can speak four languages, and Davie sings in his room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... be turned in on that same day. If I start sounding unintelligible, it ... Two weeks ago, my life was studying. On three consecutive days, I had

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  ." What's particularly amazing about Smyly's status in the Infinite is how ... -student club: how, then, can he be allowed on campus so late at night? The ... Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  colleague and I were in awe at how exceptionally knowledgeable you and Matt ... hammer home the point of how blogs can be used to build a community, we ... in Ben's blog: ...I just want to compliment you and Matt for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  honestly, does the distinction even matter? When I was in my late teens ... at my interests in mathematics. But I'm not a teenager anymore, and I ... 't know how to confess these reasons, because they seemed so shallow. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning ... pretty stressful at times, and at the end of the day I was exhausted, I can ... here I am 100% sure I will be ready for a career in the Air Force.

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  say that I loved talking to you early admits and I can't wait to meet ... Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I ... . (Briefly.) 7:46 - Discussing prose - how the reader and the writer, in a ... As I mentioned earlier, Neil Gaiman is coming to MIT! The lecture he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... since I knew I probably wouldn't win. Well you can imagine my surprise ... My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  , including a random lab tech in a white coat wandering down just as I was ... the poor upload quality, you probably can't read that on the doors in ... It's finally spring in Boston! And unlike the occasional t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  zonotope themselves. Notice how, when I drew the edges in this example, I ... plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... if it won’t intersect with it. In my example, I’ll draw the third

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• FAQ / Visit

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  We look forward to showing you what makes MIT so special! We offer in-person info sessions and tours as well as online sessions. Head over to our ... -created version of MIT in Minecraft!