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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  for riding on the T. Their product has received the support of both the ... The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us ... evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... would be away from home for at least 3 months until Thanksgiving. The ... clue card comes up for "King Kong" but my friend, Elyse, she's got the

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... answered for me: And your teacher is right: unless the MIT class offers an ... reaction). Molecular biology typically looks at biological pathways from the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  pulled out my phone to look up directions to the next repair shop. I then ... a turn, and dipped inside the nearest store to ask the owner for ... the machine.    And then. I was asking a friend at EC for pset

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  the final project (the non-professional version I made for the class ... MIT is for the hosed students who want to “burst the MIT bubble,” that ... looks suspiciously like dog chow). Still, all that is better than the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  -athlete: “The basketball team comes back early on December 26th to get ready for ... you want to get recruited to swim for MIT you should email the coaches and fill out the recruit questionnaire that you can find online! For me

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and ... the more you skip class. You're paying for your education anyway - why ... fact that you will be competing with your peers for the same jobs. Think

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  and 5pm in the company's time zone, which is really awkward for people ... by maybe three to five for all the companies you're interviewing for at the same time, and your calendar starts looking crazy. This whole rush

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... gave the spot to someone else; I was that much sadder for my lack of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  lost a few too many points on the final and wound up with a B+ for the ... the extra three points I needed for an A! Moral of the story? Don't throw away free points! 5.13 If 8.02 initially struck me as the class for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  ^12 cells" Um, apparently now we're looking for mutant hamentashen. The first ... for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they ... introduced for Team Hamentashen. We're all receiving paper plates in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  during the month of July—starting 7 books and listening for 107 hours.  The ... listening to these books for the 7th time. I should also not be listening to ... ’re looking for actual book recs, I apologize, but I have literally no more

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my ... overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... release. I had the great privilege of getting pit tickets for twenty one

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... ://youtu.be/nLSaCFlXn-g (might want to turn on english subtitles for this) In short, the film ... environments” we somehow recognize that the environment wasn’t good for is in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple ... ) Taking charge in the kitchen isn’t quite as hard as it looks. While it may ... Chef, and Chopped. The overall formula for most of these shows is simple: you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view ... , though! Just today it was like [annotation note="24 celsius for the normal ... for a muffin or a cookie and maybe some [annotation note="although the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , that's at the root of it. For what it's worth, I enjoyed some ... or scout for free food or something. On the whole, my options are ... that was ostensibly going on somewhere in Iowa. The instructions for my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  to be an actual adult for the night (I turn twenty next week. Yikes ... were other photos where I look even stupider): When the New Year came, I ... You want to know the hardest part about this job? Entry titles. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a story for another day. For now, here are three excerpts from conversations in my life over the past few days. As my beloved high school friend

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  , pointing towards the computer pile. Is that appropriate for the MIT ... , for those of you who'd been asking about the name of the cat in the ... mitadmissions blog for the record, i also call my cat cat. her given name is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011