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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... elaborate on the many wonderful aspects of this Institute, namely its interdisciplinary nature, or the fact that of its over 500 researchers, half are

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  . I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and proud birthplace of both the Holland Tulip Time Festival and the Christian ... -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  . Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... finished with the vast majority of your college applications within the next ... about you, but I remembered the first half of my senior year flew by in no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• 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

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate ... than one adapts. So with that out of the way, I have some actual comp

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... began making the very unhealthy-sounding buzzing sound of an electric

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night ... friend of mine tipped me off about the hack, but publishing his or her name

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the ... known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of ... name and 2 hour classes, table problems, and labs are the plays of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  of flour and one cup of milk and stir it into the soup. Cook five more ... My thesis is done. It is 384 pages long, 2.0833% of them text, 4.9479% of them pictures, and 90.365% of them code.         Here is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  the stress level on campus would be pretty high right now, most of my ... the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... across the east side of campus for my UROP (more about that later) when I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time, but also I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro after using Sony Vegas for the ... 'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  of 1300 GMT the decisions were at Boston's South Station (the main post ... those of you not familiar with the 24-hour clock, or zero-hour, that's 9 ... , you may be one of the 12%. For those not in the 12% - do not despair

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  the morning so I woke up around 9:30am and then went to 14.01 recitation ... interface has a bunch of different methods and if you create a class… I DON ... always puts super cute pictures of his cute baby son with captions that are

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of ... found a suitable copy of the opening ceremonies. I downloaded it, watched ... distribution of copyrighted material violates MIT Policy and the MITnet Rules of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... match of the season, instead of the spry, bright-eyed youth that I should ... summer free of academic worries had stripped me of the urgency that just

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I ... . Since I make the meatcubes in batches of six, the first cube was browned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the ... is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the bottom is a snapshot of the same week in February 2010, when I was at the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  after the start of those, “Virgin Bartending” (non-alcoholic) begins. At 2 ... attend at least 70% of the events. Picking will be a pain. The names and ... number and variety of activities indicate the great teamwork and passion

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015