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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  cards and follow up. After the seminar, we went to a "Mock"tail Party ... to the test while conversing with alumni and employers. It was a great ... yourself that might help jumpstart the conversation. Make sure the tagline is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  Caleb's bed, there's a lot of ramen. That is the designated communal food ... specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I ... along the ceiling that I use to hang coats and other clothes sometimes

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  . The Salem story is proof that it is totally possible to enjoy a young ... and “A Night to Dismember” party during the month-long Salem Halloween ... the MIT routine sometime. Later that day, we went to get food with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , to make a hook. Repeat that on the other side, so you have two hooks ... take breaks, then left me to it. The forge is surprisingly a good place ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  're answering the same questions over and over again, BUT, I feel like it's a ... my planner to Google calendar-ing. Coffeelings is a mini journal that ... , and that is something to be proud of. Your commitment to your community

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  refuse to think that MIT is a real college, and it’s just a big science ... [/annotation], and I heard from many people that they liked having a drumset in there ... set and are MAD expensive. I also need to confirm that getting a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  that I needed to tell her something. And then she would spend the next ... “marrying a woman one day” is the assumption. So, I had to say something ... came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... , and it is a manifestation of that essence that we see as a shining beam ... that in a way a particle we detect is a manifestation of the wave, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  really recommend binging a show to survive the wait that is decisions. I ... there was no confetti, and I lack the ability to read more than a line of ...  students' niceness, and, simply put, the vibe it gave off. It felt like a place that

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a ... that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all ... farther away from the knowledge and innovation that they carried. I lived

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  psets without collaboration. 18.01A is the same. It seems I always have to ... to say that 18.01 is easy -- calculus is no easy feat. But the drastic ... 't really know anyone. I've come to hate the words "Turn to a neighbor and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  duality is core to the MIT experience, and to power through the stickiest ... with pie and cheer, I went to bed, knowing that the very next day my ... loves to experiment with food herself, I kept reading and learned that in

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  that the best thing you can do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or ... that period, but there may be some delay due to the holidays, so please ... send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  question. It was a bit weird to be sitting in the same room with the guy who ... -Lee, the guy who invented the world wide web. (That sentence alone is pretty ... site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  later meeting time and add a person to the team who had at least some on ... mind: enter Emily ’22. Emily is a part of the not-so-secret team and she ... pieces started to meld together enough to have a first draft. And, with the

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... , but we know what it is. It’s very easy to make, but I realize the name ... ’ve come to understand that the Lloyd clan has its own vernacular. For

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster by Zack I. ‘27

  

  . Estimating the angles and heights to create a smooth transition that also ... year for a project of this scope) as the design is iterated upon and ... commit to a banked curve.  I had access to a simple MATLAB script that the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 18, 2026
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  The 6.9610 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge that combines battle strategy, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  workarounds had to be made. There is still a structure that rolls and coasts ... -go-round is bigger and more solid than last year's.   There is a see-saw that ... very ironic and sad, given that East Campus is arguably the organization

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  and I'm happy to say that this spring I am a lab assistant for the class ... didn't take this class because it is a 9am and I used to have a strict ... were assigned a project that we have to complete in the next two weeks! I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021