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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where ... where I almost took a sharpie, wrote the responses on my flashy CPW ... “where are you from?” is interesting to me — when someone asks me that now

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... following the status quo, I was amazed to find that MIT was continually and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a ... if a few electrons were to come near the foil, the charge on the surface would be amplified below. It may be easier to think of the GEM as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... itself. "Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note ... never actually find a pair of skinny jeans that fit. Oh, how things change

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  . Others wanted to go where most of their friends were going. I and a handful ... had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... ,000 resident city-within-a-city, so we rarely had to leave. For my sophomore

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  classes, passing classes, to get A's, to get C's (P/NR FTW!), to be ... finding myself wanting to regret, but am never able to, because it was ... 2.006 test (which was likely to be VERY hard). All of a sudden, in

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  stuck on our bikes in a thunderstorm where we took to a revolving door at ... completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during ... ago when my sister and mom finally got the chance to visit for a weekend

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  all the while. I lived a life where I move to Ethiopia and start a ... and then around the world. I lived a life where I go to business school ... -Jamaican artist to illustrate it.  I lived a life closer to the near future, where

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get groceries from Target, Hmart, or Daily Table, or to grab a latte from Caffe ... like waifu things." I didn’t have enough hands to haul a body pillow

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... also very hard). A few questions to be answered... From NY asks, "As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  Torx screwdriver and biking around Cambridge to find a hard drive from ... a particularly good entry, they happen to deviate from their work and ... will inevitably follow, from denial - searching for a clipboard log - to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  that people can find other orientation housemates/roommates. Check it out! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  AR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes ... morning begins with a stand up, where everyone on the team talks about their ... everyday, which is definitely preferable to a long walk or commute. From the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  tried to find alternatives. A simpler solution was found and decided to go ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... 's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  learned a lot of new ways to see exactly where I went wrong. This also came ... The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... that useful. Now, I love to find ways to use it. I think of it as an

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  find a way to serve the MIT community. Not only will you meet amazing ... personal growth, and a big part of that is understanding your limits. Find ... happiness. I spent a semester burned out because it took me a long time to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  to cook breakfast or lunch each day unless i bring a sack breakfast and ... 's paint night or a movie or going to Harvard to eat and window shop or just a bike ride. To summarize, simply become a reasonably well

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of ... paleness. People carry themselves more loosely now. Sometimes I can't find a ... decided to join Kensho, a data science company at Harvard Square, as a full

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a ... Dominos has brought the concept to a whole new level. I just think this is ... residence in Massachusetts. All I had to do was bring a credit card statement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other ... family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have ... cooker, and press a button. This is so much easier than pan-frying where

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020