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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... carbon atoms in ways that cause atom groups to change places. This happens ... compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... out (if they haven't already), I implore you to read them. Take them in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  either -- two references to 10 Things I Hate About You in less than a year ... on by the Charles Hotel here in Cambridge. Their plan is to turn ... book directly to your room. In the hotel's courtyard, they'll have an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  , so I'm going to go through them all in this entry. These are totally ... you get to put your gown on and wait to graduate. I found about a gazillion ways around this system, and thus managed to get 9 beach balls and 2

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  supporting them to build projects in 9 hours"]BLUEPRINT 2025 [/annotation] IS ... is SO CUTE so we're going to try get you guys some photos too. i ... competition. it was silly, but in the best way possible, and i am hyped to see

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  , when am I going to get this kind of freedom again?  ... math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is ... ... how difficult is it to pick stuff up? As far as picking up programming ... you'll want to design efficient algorithms, etc. If you were in another

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot ... 't commit to the story and the characters. They would giggle or laugh or get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... , I would like to expound on how I cook, why I cook, and why I cook the ... ’ve found is to try appreciating the tiny moments in my daily life that I have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  breaking off to become the new College of Computing, my how things have ... Institute back then.[/annotation]   Getting into MacG in the fall of ... , which may have led to the construction of a third double in F. As of now

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  You know how in Saturday morning cartoons, there's usually some guy ... happened to me today. After my 24.900 lecture this morning, I decided to take a brief nap in the student lounge off of the Infinite Corridor. When I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  crowd going to watch and join in. We are really cool like that. MIT OOH ... , learning how to play chess is still on the to-list, along with learning how ... to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... girl in red?” Music taste is revealing. It gets you perceived. Just look ... discussion to work out our differences. While djent does have its roots in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  next to the window with the sun coming in, idolizing my new computer. I ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its students. And if you knew how expensive this software was you'd be relieved

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... . In fact, you’d only need to keep track of one thing, the running sum ... sum to 5 + 9 = 14, and so on. In this way, you don’t need to actually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  be really great and that it was going to be out in theaters sometime soon.  Therefore, on my way to get Frozen Yogurt on Saturday, I was super ... on our way to get Frozen Yogurt, we came across the actual battle scene

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  graduation will be in two months; that I’d get to have one gloriously carefree ... sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a ... would get to work "if it rained". "So, what if it rained?", they said ... lived in the lodge then. It had been threatening to rain all day-- darker

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  worn task chair waiting patiently in the corner. Hi, chair! How do you ... scratch off the "m" in "team" on the door to 10-085, giving Building ... wonderful and fun, but it was getting late, so I decided to head back to my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005