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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  . "Sounds good, how do I start the puzzle?" you might ask. Well, if you ... undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for ... .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... empower communities via tech education and highlight bias in algorithms. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  Bon Pain in the NIH Clinical Center (which I justify by the total ... mug), hanging out in New York City, and more. I’m really only getting ... , sinking in. Could it really be true that I only have one year left at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... [email protected] if you would like more As for more Qs. How will ... requirement for this program, and I landed in Milan’s Linate airport on January

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I ... , though I’d never competed or formally trained in any way. As Winter Break ... that first race, but I must have made it down in one piece. I may have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Hell, but you all bond in that mutual suffering." I can't tell you how ... Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  sense of how engineering practices differ around the world. (I'd like to ... Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent her summer in Venice, Italy through an informal internship

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  restrictions and rules of being in a sorority. I don't know how much I can talk ... 't expect. People would often immediately think I was weird off the bat, just ... way. I think, as I type this, I still don't regret my choice to live in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  Tomorrow is my last final! Hurray! In the meantime, I was just surfing the web (read: procrastinating) when I came across an American Idol ... completely missed this season and now I can't believe my eyes! How is Taylor, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said ... , so I'm going to go through them all in this entry. These are totally ... speech. I also didn't know what order the ceremonies were going in. During

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense yet fun week, and I'll probably blog about that this weekend. But on a ... vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  , Sheesha: And this is proof positive why I would rather have a cat than a ... for the record that this is the first time in my four years I’ve been ... , well, was quite an adventure. I departed from how at about 11am with my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working ... For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... .[/annotation] I'll write about that experience more in depth in another blog, but

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in ... just wanted to capture this feeling for now before I fill in the details ... was so incredible that Amritaa '10 and I both stared out the window in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... know everything about how to not die in the Big Rocks when it's really ... in soft ice. The first time I went to the Big Rocks, I didn't bring the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  presentation. Finished at 3AM - I forget how productive I am in the wee hours of ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time ... Hrabowski's incredible speech, after which Marilee and I went in search of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  (I read that in Nature last week while eating lunch at the lab. Guess I ... , drinks fine wines, and drives fancy cars. I'm not really sure how he got ... ? Cause, I mean, heaven knows I eat and sleep and whine in the lounge and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  disruptive, and I don't know how to keep 100 kids in line. They might find ... Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... , unfortunately, and the remaining slices are covered in Balsamic vinaigrette. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  ,'' Elizabeth Lozada said. ''I just remember thinking it would be the premier ... said. ''Now, I'm finally going where I want to be going.'' He'll live in ... how much they'll miss having him around. ''I've tried to prepare myself

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006