Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation ... very sensitive to subtle differences in bright objects would be ... to your eye. Here's a visual example from this website (which I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  inside of Spangler Hall. A study hall. I don't know how people could study in a place like this. I'd be too distracted gawking around at the ...  campaign my friends and I did a few months ago and Jordyn was extremely impressed at how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  taken, and the projects I've done in them.   21W.750: Experimental ... on our class website, here. For my news article, I wrote about mental ... hospital and at home in New York. I had to miss my final classes for recovery

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  entered and became a finalist in. "Gee," I thought, "A blogging scholarship. Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  how we didn’t know what to do. I sit in the ESP office for a while ... hindsight, I understand that running this kind of program in-person would have ... flight that would happen in just 36 hours. Stress pack because I can’t fall

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  "]accelerometers[/annotation] in a digital setting, and how to break large, complex systems into ... ="95293" /] Although I wrote a lot of code in 6.2050, the whole FPGA engineering process ... oops...) I could go on forever about technical details and how

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In ... process, how was I going to put up with several dozen more? It tends to be ... virtually? How do we do recruitment now? And I've had to deal with these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would be happy to respond to, as well) about how we stay organized and how we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  reading about topics in philosophy when I have downtime. I don't know if it ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I ... art. Unfortunately, I am itchy and covered in scary wheals all the time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... world, and people sent in truly wonderful digital artifacts, so i

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  students via the DHL website (our shipping company), in essence publishing ... could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who did the right thing. I was incredibly impressed with your integrity

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  . Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... if I wanted to get dressed up or not, and finally gave in to the ... writing the recipient's name on the gift (how boring would that be!) we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I ... the opening of the oven, the “door” that the pie would go in through ... ’s me laying in it because I’m 5’2” and the pie was 6.28 feet in diameter

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... otherwise would sail over their heads. Co-founder of iRobot was told 'that ... Technology in 1990, Greiner founded iRobot with a classmate, Colin Angle, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  I should start as the only blogger in [annotation note="civil and ... Mechanics, which I took in the fall. Last semester, I learned all about ... on how different components with different properties work together in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  since this would be my first time taking others out) In full, I got to ... schedule just the day before their flight! Anyways, I was sitting in a ... ! Immediately, it felt like I had never left. I read in an article that found some

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... functioning in artificial gravity before their missions to space. Junior Jenny

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry, I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there ... young? haha - tangent: i still get id'ed every time when i buy tylenol at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  .mit.edu/chocolatiers/www. Check out a video of the MIT chocolatiers in action at www.how2heroes.com ... described:   Founded in 2003, the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  the same in my hometown) and I swore I would strangle someone the next ... am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... -inducing conversations. I really remember being so overwhelmed by MIT, and how smart those

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008