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Blog / MIT History & Culture
G(e)e^ks
First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked ... you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel -
Blog / How to Human
people appreciation post <3
in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... unmatched, playing copious amounts of redactle with Nora, making sure I am not -
Blog / Academics & Research
Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.
MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per -
Blog / Academics & Research
What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines
The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…
as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy-league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed ... on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach
reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment -
Blog / Admissions
Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges
being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of ... overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all -
Blog / Life after MIT
Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…
College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…
with each addition of enjoyment. This bucket probably exists somewhere under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and -
Blog / Academics & Research
First Days in NYC
externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what -
Blog / Admissions
And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.
It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective -
Blog / Academics & Research
It Ends My last last day of school
start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days -
Blog / MIT Life
OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.
every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological ... 's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don -
Blog / How to Human
Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19
*to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the -
Blog / People & Identities
On Reconnecting spending winter break in India
fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American -
Blog / Academics & Research
[Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México
While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks
my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different -
Blog / Events
2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!
Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... long and rich tradition of "The Standard Technology Ring" (but everyone -
Blog / Events
Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness
laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three
