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• 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 / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter

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

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... 'm sure that a bunch of people going to the beach isn't enough to supply the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by ... .012 and her TA was Frank Wilczek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  you know what I mean when I say that I was kind of like the walking dead when I got home, only minus the drool. And when I’m tired, I have kind of ... night’s kind of took the cake, though, because I think my subconscious is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  happy, and enjoy the small distractions of life. Graduating high school is ... and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  this is the least awkward of the 3 thumbnail options YouTube gave me. It ... To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  great shows, like Bats in the Belfry, The Hot Rat Sessions, The..., and of ... of live shows back to normal. This makes events like the WMBRBQ so epic ... part of the station!   [carousel image1="103689" image2

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of ... that are parked on a small ramp at the end of the match. Teams get 6 jam

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... .                The above are my two favorite photos of this blog post. They are from ... Boston, and Somerville—the vines and flowers and old brick against

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  behavior. As a maintainer of linux.mit.edu, the SIPB Linux dialup server ... filesystem, which is one of the major filesystems used on Linux today. Here ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final ... some ways, the end of this semester has been bittersweet. I have 3 ... outside of the omg-finals-are-coming campus bubble. We walked into the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... minutes before finally stumbling upon the new, extended DVD release of ... MIT's 28 fraternities in the fall of my freshman year--while I had no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because of the restriction on serving open food at club events, I've eaten an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ...  linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the movements) of all the chess pieces when I decided to hit the download button

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of over one billion dollars. this says very little about the internals of the company - there are many examples of unicorns with almost zero

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in hopes of selling it later this year, which included repainting the doors ... school ended and spent the rest of my schooling in the Twin Cities area

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021