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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  tickets worked. "I remember telling myself that the Ontario Lottery is a ... Ontario Lottery ticket pictured here. Here's a hint: this is a winning ... ." Maybe there's something to be said for the old saying, "The Lottery is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  incredibly vague about who is a terrorist. Anyone who speaks up is threatened. This, of course, is only one blow in a long and sustained campaign ... I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  in how a few greats, such as Lincoln, Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie, ran the country and their businesses. This is a must read for anyone who ... reading it and spent my free time catching up on a few fantasy books. After

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... me explain the phrase "deckbuilding roguelike". A roguelike is a kind of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby ... that people didn't talk about. This is a post about health, and my ... Computer Science major, given how "superficial" of a topic it is. But every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  provides a "broad base" for physics at all. The approaches in the two fields ... ) MIT DOES have options for people who come in with a more limited math ... 'm asking is how do i put my passion down on paper and my capability in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  the content. It looks like it is written in a different language, which ... because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many MIT students, that change is continuous, like paint gliding across a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  is the brainchild of Scott '08, a Course 5 junior who's graduating a ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a ... great, but still - six hours is a long time for a college student! I mean

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  pretty much anything that you and your thesis advisor (who is usually a ... my game. My friend Shaye is a senior in Earth, Atmospheric, and ... Junior year that is substituted for a thesis (# of units = projected # of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... ’t have any free MIT wifi. But the biggest change for me is this: I am not doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  in a cup; it is a daily ritual that brings together families and ... roots. In particular, pão de queijo, a gluten-free cheesy bread, has ... Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  my interest in historical research. Fiction Workshop is a great class ... Overview of Past Semesters (there is a tl;dr below) Freshman fall: 8 ... learned a lot from the Latinx history class. In hindsight, however, I wish I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year ... employ some different tactics in addressing this issue. In my free time, I ... effective however (and this is only applicable for any students or staff who

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  become genuine. It is wayyyy to early in the morning to keep up a “oh hi there I don’t know you that well” façade. In addition, there is still a ... thing about finding a family in a fraternity is that having cool brothers

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  periodic lectures in room 35-225. This is a picture from our lecture on ... 's in this picture - the round base (with help from teammate Matt '08, who ... out the most recent ball to go in. This is a prototype of the ball

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these ... be used to maximize happiness, called Gale-Shapley. Here is a picture ... was able to communicate with the girls and get around in the city in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  and blossom in such a short period of time. Now, I see that my skin is ... at him is a stranger that i share in nothing with, but dna, double ... shit' is one I borrowed from my ex boyfriend, who used to say it a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  Ethan '05, who is currently in the MechE program, but he hasn't gotten ... information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently ... any questions since she's in the MEng masters program, which is only for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  plates of deliciously free Thai food, we all sat in a circle of desks as ... right now, I’ll throw in a free doodle! Yes, that’s right, I’ll answer ... was the sofa in front of the TV. A side effect of television was the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  about it. In a single day, I had a base coat up, went shopping for paint ... . And that was it, I was graduated, who needs a piece of paper in a fancy ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014