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• 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 / 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 / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... you're taking one. Because everyone in MIT has to take them, it's more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  , travelled to all parts of Boston in a mere 4 hours, had fun at REX events ... 't limited to pizza), spent a night in the New England Aquarium, and finished ... because you know they'll be helpful to you one day in the future, but you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the ... Python programming and circuit theory in order to control a robot. The ... localization – how a robot can figure out where it is in when you place it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... changed when I went to Next Gen Summit. I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

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

  

  to help me get food in the cafe. So, I'll be fine. In any case, it ... like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  the word. literally, african american refers to people who live in or ... realized that if i tried to chime in and say what everyone was saying... i ... at the same time i struggle to put my experiences out in the world for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You ... -festooned establishment in Uptown Manhattan that pampers to the effete relaxations of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle ... ceremony, the priest asked all of the MIT people in the audience to raise our ... 's collective thunder. The priest also described how the groom proposed to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  back in to help manage the closing show. I tell you this terrible, shameful tale only to communicate how good these ribs are. They will make ... , do you know how to make ribs?” Now pause and try to help me understand

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and ... in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to generating ... knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. MIT is dedicated to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on ... design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... ) minutes and then go to bed. But if I start a book, that book is getting ... [annotation note="I'm kinda lonely in NYC lol. Post on that coming soon..."]not a lot[/annotation]to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But ... . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... " but "Friderick." 3. The male emperor penguin must hike 80 miles to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  decided to concentrate in Chinese , MISTI-China was the logical follow-up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the ... haven’t really tried to articulate this thought in anticipation of my trip

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  how to use • And a green sticky note! This was the sticky note that was ... pictured getting super soaked by a five year old in the flyer) 8) Tickets ... ’t just go to for the food. But in all seriousness, this event is super fun

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  resident who attends Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass. He won't really get to ... Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  inevitably care for me in my old age to play music that I actually like.   ... ):   Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by ... whole phase in October where I listened to Cab Calloway's version of "St

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019