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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  spot of time to myself to reflect, because I had just made the decision ... where you can relax and talk and just be with others that you care about ... from CPW in the Rainbow Lounge the morning before, where I relaxed in a

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  .     Depending on where you go, you might be asked - as I was ... enjoy global affairs as much as they do engineering and science, have made ... , it's taken them all the way to Seoul, South Korea, where two juniors

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  it quits. Accompanied by two friends, I made my way back to Mc ... are absolutely phenomenal. A year ago, when asked to write up a brief ... , I think wishfully of my high school days where midnight was considered

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  was unscheduled, but that made it all the more better. For example, Les Cline made the alumni of Stuyvesant currently attending MIT (Stuyvesant ... talked about random stuff in small open groups. MIT stuff like "Are you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  disappear within a day and made my way to class. Unfortunately, the pain did ... get it treated. And so I made my way over to the Mount Auburn Hospital ER, where they prescribed me some antibiotics after a more thorough

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  people together to floor pi: pizens, students who are friends of the floor ... thing as a typical day. but why did i feel so tired, then? where did it ... these are all challenging times, that it'll all get better when things are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  project (I made him! from scratch! he's my child!) and so I sent out a bunch ... . thoughts on research, after a chaotic semester of research I made this ... that some people are a little bit riskier and make an intentional design

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  ideas) are some of MIT`s tenets, so I bought the book. And now I`m buying ... cream-filled these classes are. Until beyond multivariable calculus, you ... knowledge, MIT students are ready to tackle the more rigorous and challenging

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  congregates people who are interested in the subject or are interested in ... events include free tickets to contemporary art performances at the ICA and ... outside of MIT because not only are the tickets for the events often

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . -Discover Mech. Engineering concluded with a Battle Royale of home-made soccer ... point where a 2-foot-by-4-foot plastic bin at the sidelines of the arena ... also consumed my remaining free time for breakfast. To the unending

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

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  the summer), but I'm not sure where I could find it... Sean said: So ... , custom fish tanks, are allowed in these dorms if they meet safety ... plates, which are usually allowed to be stored in some common area

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  depending on where they are facing. Photo credit: Bruno Perreau. Then, we got ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in ... ” housing many African immigrants, that are not frequented by tourists. We saw

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  formally, given a list of N numbers in random order, where N is very large ... comparisons, where k is a small constant (could be 5, 10, 15, etc). The number ... mergesort is. If an algorithm made k * N2 comparisons, it would be slower, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  glassblowing classes at MIT are about ten times cheaper than similar classes ... ? How is that humanly possible? The pumpkins are so intricate – surely it ... about it! After all, I’ve made… counts on fingers… two whole glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  game i'm going to run. it's set in a magical realist world where paranormal artifacts exist, and the player characters are in an auction for some of them. it's way more writing than i expected to do, and made worse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  showing him around our dorm. Back at Senior House, he made an interesting ... culture, you’re probably aware that the halls of our dorms are covered with ... manifestation of the “do pretty much whatever” principle of room painting. Where

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of ... non-basic technical concept to "people who are smart but have zero ... are just the basics of parsing and I already had to let so much

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  point out that we are in the month of Feburary. These are the kinds of ... working. You can even go somewhere else (WHAT? WHERE). Plus, the fact that ... 's a tip for you when you make the trip out to Boston: if you are going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  While presidential elections are normally associated with debates ... explain Terrascope. Terrascope is a project-based class where freshmen solve ... technological prowess using a spiffy computer interface that he made. As shown

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  school. I was appropriately excited, and even more so when I made another ... ," what I really mean is "I make sandwiches for myself.") But there are ... Cormick have both kitchens and a dining hall. There are also dining halls in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005