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• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  months ago...which is terrible. Senior fall ended up being a little more ... night. It was like hitting a huge, much-needed reset button on my life ...  externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of

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

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  variability depending upon who is responding So instead of giving a number, I ... pie is a zero.” The protests were immediate. I think there was a ... interpretation of a given individual and how applicable it may be to them.  I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  , but I’ve learned to control breakouts.  I wonder how much of life is ... (a/n: My birthday was a few weeks ago! So this blog is just slightly ... twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a ... units mean that this course is a slightly smaller time commitment than the ... situation (How did company A react when it developed budget cuts? What did

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  . My family usually keeps a couple of boxes of scone mix and I ... Wait Learn how to make anything listed above. Attend a free concert or ... . Here is a photo I took of a collision at Weeks.[annotation note="as far

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  much...FREE FOOD. ALL THROUGH THE MONTH OF MARCH How about this: Get a ... recommends: Professor Jeffrey Harris Professor Harris is a health economist and holds an MD as well as a PhD. He studies the economics behind

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  tell me how easy their homework is - how it really isn't that much ... [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is ... force me to have a much deeper understanding of the material. Yes, you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  . The most basic building element is a point-like particle, which has ... . However, line-like nanowires are much more versatile and are a fundamental ... Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  should make that a blog post!" So here it is, a lil post about how crazy 6 ... complicated feelings about how something that is usually excused as "just a joke ... again, I remember how much I love it and I don't feel like I'm making the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  generations, and how much the nature of work itself has changed dramatically ... communication is the single most influential factor in how we work, from the ... whose central goal is to address the question: "How can people and

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  Ok, so you know how Chris is always talking about free food? Well, I ... ? How about a puzzle hunt at the MIT Museum written specially for MIT ... creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  pipe flow. This is what writing a 21-page proposal on drag reduction in ... laughing about how much smarter you are than an MIT student while your ... world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  then pop the balloon both inside and outside of a box to compare how far ... than others. If there is any such life experience that’s had a lasting ... ’s about how science fair as a whole made me a better version of myself. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed about college essays. It's interesting how life changes. A year ago ... : - There is a physics pset due tomorrow. - I am hungry. I need food. - I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to ... point. Anyway, that's how I decided on pursuing both 7A and CMS. 7A is a ... officially register for a double major, this is how I went about it. 1) Fill

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  dropped it), but the best part is that there's a roughly 1.2:1 ratio of ... and Thurs serve lunch. Which is a great bonus.   6 ... probability. Probability is really the foundation of a lot of analysis in EECS

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  who knows Lilly is going to do a longer interview of her with lots of good questions like "how did you get so fresh?" and "what is knowledge ... ! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... pink and purple, and cracked open with lightning. That is how lightning looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  different places and experimenting with how much I opened up before I found a ... their peers, which to me is indicative of a community I have never been a ... it." At times like these, it is really helpful to have a place to go

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is ... understand that it was wholly unintentional. Some have remarked that it is a ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005