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• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  content moderation in ways that apply here as well. And I intentionally say ... moderation article I linked above, as well as by Gizmodo in a separate article ... essays that I wrote for CMS.701, Current Debates in Media, as part of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at ... ,000 tiny holes (about 70 um in diameter) using a chemical etching process The ... up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... Asia sometime in the future). Thailand The first stop was Thailand. I ... , including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to fly until post-MIT - in the meanwhile, I'm mostly spending my time taking advantage of opportunities I didn't have at home ^_^)  In any case

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  . But I have no idea how they do it. Anyway, I had just reached the ... slices. I wasa in charge of mixing the caramel mix on the stove. Then we ... MIT is hard. Seriously. That's why we have study breaks. I know that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  job site in Needham, where I catch one of three trains between the hours ... accompanying sights beckon my eyes to rest. Each day that I work in Cambridge ... amount to something more. I thus turn those train trips into exercises in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... somewhere in the neighborhood of $30, and I had already spent $30 at LAX last ... all night, then crashed in bed. 12:15 PM -- I woke up, sort of got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... succeeded in this by reading The Alchemist and The Road, I quickly found

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  how cool and entertaining everything was I remember her looking me dead ... I can spend 16 hours straight in the shop soldering my PCB boards* and ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... in India. Last Tuesday was my final day in Anaikatti, when I turned in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  characters on this famed seedy strip. In my senior year of high school, I ... like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour ... thought I would be giving all this up by coming to Cambridge. Seriously

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... , and best overall. Can anyone guess which category I entered my pumpkin in? Here's Veena '06, who lives in Baker House. Look at the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  jacket est. time: 30 min? I put some spikes in it. bleach-painting jeans est. time: 2 hrs I found these black cargo pants at a thrift store in ... Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a previous entry about Spring 07 classes, I took a short story writing class ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The ... the artist whose design I choose, *and* send you some MIT memorabilia in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them ... 't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year ... all of the "leadership positions" that I had held in high school. After

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  &A. From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products ... everywhere, and there was confetti. Lots and lots of confetti. I could definitely see why 2.009 was one of the most famous classes at MIT. Although I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... world, and then later I would think, wait, was that sentence actually ... witness a lot of beauty in the world; I spent a year in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022