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  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  , it was clear that everyone was together and committed to making ... I'm sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston, listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... this year in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange program. Possibly due to his ... style is flexible enough to suit your diverse academic needs (spoiler: it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10:30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch ... while I'm traveling!) If you ever get a chance to go, I'd highly recommend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... ’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about ... pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  physics psets which I'm just a little psyched about. So to share my ... Special Relativity with a brief intro to General Relativity is 1) a physics ... case you want to pop by with a muffin and say hi. Don't forget the muffin

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  seemed kind of strangely appropriate. After the game, I went to go get a ... everybody knows happened there really got to me. But as our English ... . Somebody remarked that it was impossible to get by the Brandenburger Tor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  within the field, engineers were working together in teams to solve novel ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  her, you can get through anything together.) I had been planning to ... TV shows to watch. Adam and I have been eagerly awaiting the season ... that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  , I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do ... to the American Solar Challenge (ASC), where our team raced our solar ... components to the event, the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and the official

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  . I often find myself flitting from coast to coast, but still haven ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  and comics. As a high school junior trying to put together a ... subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  well together? We had Youth Advocates from ages 17 to 22, including two ... all passionate about the production and excited to work together. We ... impossible to process that this was it, maybe the last time I’m seeing these

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.   I continue to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new ... commtment to the next. When classes began, I was fine: the academics were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... , we met Djuena Tikuna (the indigenous singer who was to perform with us ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  . Three times. Listening to musical soundtracks and singing along WAY to ... something. I have NO clue what to do with all of this time. I lack purpose. I ... admitted to MIT, my number one concern was not having a space to pursue my

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019