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• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle ... of the images for a better view!][/caption]Why settle on a bicycle? Why not tricycles, for extra stability and a flair of whimsy? Become the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the ... , the class is about making games using a framework called Love. One of ... programming course, so no real experience is required! One of the reasons I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ... , but after the next week or so, a lot of CK stuff will be done and I ... visit the Museum of Fine Arts, learn how to make data visualizations like

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to ... , hang out with my brothers, and try to ride out the worst of it. But ... have our own power plant and all of the wires are underground), so as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art-related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... Russia in the qualifying rounds of the Eurocup, they taught us Americans ... phone, "soy yo" ("I am me") instead of "it's me" ("the person you are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... and letting myself lost sight of the underlying economic intuitions--this class did a great job of highlighting the real-world implications of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make ... [annotation note="To send an email out to all of the dorm mailing lists on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... rounds). If they lost this match, they would be out of the tournament and ... thus named in honor of the poisonous organisms in the Charles River, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We ... basement of Senior Haus every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Very few of the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you ... that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with ... doesn't necessarily mean the viewers did. First of all, she killed Shannon

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  enjoyable and meaningful way," said Amanda. Over the span of five weeks, that ... weeks of the challenge, Eric had a harder time narrowing down volunteers ... trying out more engaging initiatives brought the best out of their

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Application, I included as one of the optional essays the following prompt: You ... excerpted on the entry announcing new bloggers: The smell of decomposing ... voice. The Gods of Metal replied by raining down utter carnage. Lightning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  rendition of Auld Lang Syne. And then the whole theater had linked arms and ... people in watching the broadcast of another rendition of Auld Lang Syne ... quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  decorating the Sukkah in the most fantastic of ways (think Pimp My Ride meets ... university where "Chang" takes up two entire pages of the campus phone ... much about it. Then one fine afternoon I was in the middle of Mastering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... is by Konrad Lorenz on the behavior of jackdaws. I know that sounds dry

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption ... , working faster: psets, labs, and readings each week new. The art of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... carried all the boxes i'd packed into storage up five flights of stairs, and ... catching up with old friends and easing back into the rhythms of mit. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... .m., making my way through the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy in the Destiny

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now ... the fun of it. "It's the first time we're working together as kind of a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010