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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  though we're actually in Cambridge) at least once. This is because Boston ... remembered what it was like to live in a place without public transportation. I ... than one, so coming to a city with a Subway system like this is like

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  gain a much better understanding of exactly how an action potential works ... that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  '17. It really helped me get a sense of how much coding I knew based on ... of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer ... to adopt a new syntax.\n") print("So how do you start? Do you pick up a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Arial's R has a diagonal leg. That means that this sign's body text is in ... is in [annotation note='A friend points out that maybe this is actually ... Papyrus. This font pair is so notorious it's appeared in Undertale, and a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... serve as a force for the betterment of society. The key for Thresher is ... States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  wish I could tell you myself how wonderful it was but unfortunately I was ... Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit about the event and this is what he told me: "The Next House Thanksgiving

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  sauce came from a can; how he counted in Spanish when he went up the rows ... and sit in a big circle on the stage, underneath the red curtains we ... be a new direction, branching out from fantasy fiction. Speaking in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  that my score is lower. Edward persists in disagreeing. We make a bet. I ... cooking, pika is more than happy to match you with a Big Cook in case you ... (that is to say, pretty much incoherent but inexplicably awesome anyway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  /Course 2 reasoning behind how it worked, 2.) it can be used in a lot of ... was how to use a very strong light to cut tiny lines in paper. [carousel ... wanted to make a force/area + change-in-body figure to understand how

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  .   (from Wikimedia) Colum McCann sat on a high chair in the light. He wore a ... ending, fall in love with a priest, and be inspired to write more of my own ... . What a wonderful skill it is to speak like a beautiful novel! After the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... corresponds to what its function in the circuit is. The battery is energetic ... something. . . " Off to the side of the stage a large black drape is pulled

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  It was a music-filled, and unfortunately not work-filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a ... ." Mitra: "Diarrhea is genetic, too." Sam: "What the...?" Mitra: "It runs in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  they loved it so much. So that's what I think in a nutshell: try new ... : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  surprise then me about current me: That radio plays much less of a part in ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational ... college (lived in the same dorm). He’s a mechanical engineer. No kids (yet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... vectors linearly dependent. In other words, a triplet of vectors is linearly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  's when I graduate!I've been, in a word, miserable. This sort of misery is ... puts "m" parts in a problem? I'm looking at you 2.005....) and not much ... why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  dodged a bullet with 2.005, which was much harder in fall than in spring ... about queer history! → there is a queer bookshop in Tucson that will help ... much. write a new set of stories / novel-length piece — probably in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... 's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  a lot of time with this semester is Kylee, who has huge influence in ... how far I've come in such a short amount of time. 2022 was a year of ... year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  is out pounding the pavement in search of a job. Book #3: Ender's Game ... So with all this free time on my hands (not as much as I originally ... change in living organisms in response to biomechanical principles. A

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005