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• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... accurately is very difficult, but drawing straight lines is much easier. (Note ... a kind of fade-out, but I'm not sure how noticeable that ended up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience. Local Admitted ... : Facebook is a great place to meet your future classmates and get questions ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  . He also, I found out, is a recitation instructor for 8.286 - The Early Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on ... Challenge. The high school I'm working at is 100% Navajo, and has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  As the name implies, this is going to be a tier ranking of all thirty ... Schiappa is a great professor and he's honestly helped me through so many ... semester to do so. But this is a great class. Honestly one of the hardest

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  Pretoria’s exchange program with MIT, which is how I came to meet him (a ... there. My mom is also from Shanghai, so it was a time to reflect on my ... the office wearing a Tufts sweater--I can’t decide if this is elitist in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  Silence continues. I've finally picked a story, though. This is about how ... NRAO is the National Radio Astronomy Observatory; they have a student ... - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day ... navigate whether that community is the right one for you. A great line I ... frankly, graduating from college is tough! Now, I’m not saying taking a

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  built a thing! 74% This number is getting inflated by my UROP and my lab ... how likely I am to Do A Thing today, we can ~extrapolate~. To figure out ... opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  could be. A few rows behind us, the center section is entirely blocked off ... , however, a lot of his speech was very generic in discussing how we would go ... . *Hey, even he admitted it. ""It is a privilege to be here tonight to open

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  the bio undergrad mailing list is so nice, you get a lot of cool ... Simmons and they have a mealplan that people can join. The first quarter is ... 've been eating a little too much canned soup recently, so when I saw the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  't remember ever seeing it advertised as such, but that's what it is. It's not a ... that was how it should be, and I wasn't sure how to make a decision to ... MIT. Despite all my studying, my test average is now a 50.5 in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little ... . This was a pretty good whim. The second is a novel written by Gabriel ... ), retaining the grammatical flow of a new language is something that has been

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  to notice much else. Thankfully, just a few hours after putting my ... could become a member of MIT-EMS. I think there is some pressure to ... their work and explain things that I was unfamiliar with. IAP is a great

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  ." Seriously, what is wrong with you? Anyway, we were in a huge gigantic hurry to ... DID YOU KNOW? A long time ago, before the Fleet Center was built ... Sergeant Pepperz on a Boston Duck Tour I went on this afternoon with Tau Beta

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a ... that somebody randomly asked at some point how a Faraday cage works ... would be MUCH appreciated. For an inside look into (a draft of) what we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  authorship on a paper that is currently in about ten different files on my jump ... spend the rest of my life doing it; MIT is a pretty great place to be if ... is a critical piece of MIT's culture. Even though I was a band geek

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal ... ML papers a "physicist's mindset" to inference problems: learning how

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  gibberish, but it's still impressive-looking. Below is a non ... , is much more colorful. This Stata output is from my individual paper ... semester. 14.33 requires a 10 page group paper (ours was an events study

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal ... gives a great look into a machine room right inside, a trench around the great dome, and a peek at what the dome looks like up close. I'm not aware

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009