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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  " (right) by Richard The (G). (Photos provided by Richard The) Richard is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective ... . The piece allowed an observer to look into a box which would then

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... years, because I don't. They**** say MIT's like a box of chocolates, or Schrödinger's cat, or a box of chocolate Schrödinger's cats, in you never know

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week ... its plastic contents up and down in a discordant symphony? How can one ... by the jerky flight of a plastic box in a metal box in a metal box in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  filled with SO MUCH LIFE. I’ve turned in a total of 15 problem sets. I ... most meaningful way possible. It’s crying without care about how much you ... , soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  stopwatches and a binder clip is a little too much Macgyvering when we have, you ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... Maillard reaction. This is a non-enzymatic browning reaction which is usually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to ... . Basically, anything within reason. The default fight is a wrestling match ... showed new people how to make them as they came in. I don’t how much we

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work ... man again this year. Angela: Karthik is a legitimate genius. We put ... 's not a singular organ. Angela: how about my left lung? it's probably

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  months. And of course, since Russ is a natural teacher, it's unsurprising ... above by swinging her hard wooden mallet in a circle, croquet is a vicious ... : What is it, exactly? Well, duh, it's a double chocolate gooey butter cake

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  one. :p Truth is, I have not been doing much this semester other than ... aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is ... no longer count how many people have asked me that). C. elegans is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how the admissions ... keep working hard!) We will also include a text box for any other updates ... interview is not a required part of the application (and students whose

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  semester! AHHHHHH!" No, this IAP I'm very much not busy, and it is wonderful. A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... notes you're taking. All it takes is a tap on a word you've written to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math problem, a video about how my week is going, and my most recent ... math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... Internet. Anyway, here’s a YouTube video of me talking. Below it is my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a ... thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a ... . Also, since the Hayden library is for the MIT community, there’s a much ... is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  " is unfavorable for a few reasons: 1) it's as cringe as it is cheesy,  2 ... . Still a disappointing 5'2". Slightly older: Reaction ToolBox Now, our ... . I was very much aware that that was a possibility, just not a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  develop a model, and a validation set is used to evaluate how well different ... .  This may seem like a pretty simple problem. For humans, it is often ... slope. It is a testament to the human visual system that for computers

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... ourselves in uncomfortable positions and this is a necessary step towards ... application, I wrote a sample blogpost in response to the prompt 'What is your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how much everything around me has. How do I begin? I found myself ... , on Fifth West, which is a wonderful hall filled with cats and friends

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises ... and Practice. Although Lupe himself has said that CMS.S60 is not a music class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023