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• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  conner...my god, is she a beauty. from b to shining c, burton conner offers ... bombers) to play and it was a great time. Our usual event is a bit more interactive; a freshman is asked something relating to a certain Bomber and then

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  reduced to but a small glimmer. Participants take a traditional stance with ... allegiance to MIT, a beaver, engineering, IHTFP, stress, Tim the beaver ... to identify to what or to whom they are pledging. Figure 2. A

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look ... 'll slip in a shout-out to good old Mac High--but here, things move fast. Too ... place, socializing, trying to figure out a good routine. I'm working on

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to ... the food processor, and you turn it back on. And you start to worry a ... open the food processor. You move the fruit around with a utensil to get

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... own rooms, rather than against a live opponent. To prevent lag from ... hands to answer a question. I helped volunteer for that competition, and

  • by Phi A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any ... to is a composition of numbers. In general, when we need to get in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  The 6.9610 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge ... intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the Battlecode real-time strategy game. This is a one-month hardcore coding skills
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  a lot have no finals, just projects), and four finals turned out to be ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it ... MIT students have a lot on their plate, and are very willing to give you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  credible answers to a few questions that the painfully shallow news coverage ... that doesn't have to worry about cultivating diverse perspectives in a ... students who are being shut out, whether it's a smart American kid who has to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... phone, I could have painted a mural, or done things I actually wanted to ... assignments to give myself a little time to reset. By the end I no longer cared

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  admitted to MIT, my number one concern was not having a space to pursue my love for the arts. I NEVER thought I would go to a STEM-heavy school ... chose to hang my hat on MTG. Was it scary to audition as a freshman? Of

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  , they have a system set up to raise an alert after even just a few minutes ... . In the future, the Radio Society is hoping to develop a couple really ... program: can a computer be taught to predict the future location of an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  a page of handwritten notes for. We’re expected to understand and manipulate a lot of equations, so I tried to color code the variables to ... pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  class, taking a break to walk along the Charles with a new-ish friend ... half, actually, or 66 units, which number turns out to feel like a ... the time. I moved to pika, and with Michael Waldrep, a masters student

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  for, i feel like there's no speed limit. i always have a feature to work ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to ... 're doing it to make a deadline, or because you're forced to. but if i tell my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  and thought to myself how I, a Texan, was going to survive another ... the legislature that was being put in place to mend a post apartheid ... ” managed to be. My first week of work rolled around. A typical day found me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... to these very blogs, as - quite simply - a labor of love. Everyone in ... the scenes. I don't know about you...but at least to me, that says a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  had a lot of time to get there. i head up to the third floor of building ... .036 introduction to machine learning. after being a lab assistant, or la, for four ... recitation, plus a wednesday lab. my section was from 11:00 to 12:30, and that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... ) College Network and managed to both plan and execute a five-state/25 ... the highway turned out to be quite a highlight; one of the best parts of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then become a doctor. I was going to rock out at my classes and a bazillion

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014