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• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is ... . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances ... allemande, a courante, a sarabande, a gavotte, and a gigue. (Gigue is now one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  This is PUF! I obtained a temporary cat this summer because Ilani A ... such as: 1.  screaming PUF is a loud cat. PUF is also an opinionated ... general I taught PUF a “sit” command, but PUF is smart enough to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  is a blast, but my favorite part of this program has been meeting the other Fulbrighters and learning about their projects. A pianist is going ... cochlear implants, a biochemist is doing research on multiple sclerosis, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  are weird because linear algebra is weird. Suppose you rotated a cube 45 ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... ) to get another direction. A sequence of rotations is then equivalent to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  , even if that “person” is a metaphor or completely made up. We’ll see ... ="768"] When did you get a sliver of the moon in your eyes/And how'd you ... . That material is workable, but you don’t know how just yet. 7. Those

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  for, and take care of, others' feelings. - Mostly Me This is a pretty ... for me and it is a safe space for expression for me. I always make sure ... bad in a majority of situations. Humanity in decision making is good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  my academics that much, so here's some brief insight on how things have ... to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... shred me into pieces. I am a fool who doesn't understand physics. It is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  how your UROP is going, seeing your a cappella group perform. I come ... second of every day, watching TV is pretty much a waste of your time and a ... team is a force. We sleep outside offices and dorm rooms when people try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  questions regarding how a society is, fueled by familiar scientific practices ... institution of property is a human invention, as opposed to a description of how ... Economics is a weird kind of science. Like biologists or chemists

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  ) problem set. Behind them are three boxes of tea we just bought. For a few ... Hephaestus company. He is currently guarding a Rubik’s cube I bought over IAP ... ’ve been serving various purposes. The latest is a makeshift Towers of Hanoi

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  's language, that is to say, learn a little bit about the terms he uses quite ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]\pi/3[/latex] radians, how many is that? It's a third of a semicircle ... numbers make much more sense. Since tau is symbolized by a Greek “t”, we can ... that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... from drugs is worth the destruction of everything else, from a strictly ... chose the latter.” i think this is a possibility that we don’t explicitly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  your driver's permit. Me: I don't know what a car is. I walked away from ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to ... nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  playwright. Truth Values, written by Gioia De Cari in 2008, is a roman à clef ... girl's romp through MIT's male math maze," and as neither a girl nor a mathematician, I wasn't sure exactly how I would relate. I had seen the theater

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  paper isn’t really about cognitive augmentation as much as a general ... ; then they imagine a room where the scary version of the nightmare is on ... . this is a cute project which doesn’t really perform cognitive

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  . At the time, this was considered a "radical experiment" that faced much ... advertising a guest lecture entitled "What is a gene?" I thought that was a stupid question, because I know what a gene is. It's a piece of DNA that is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is now known as Harvard Business School. Today is a "virtual Monday" at MIT ... feed ingredients, what is the best way of making a reactor for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up ... Semyon is teaching it and he's a very kind little man who dances at the end ... wanted to take a language this fall and I really think Spanish is the way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020