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• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  everything that your parents wouldn't let you do in the house when you were a ... nudges you to think about math in a new way, whereas Diff. Eq. is annoyingly mired in details and is reluctant to show you the big picture until

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany ... the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  ! So you could definitely say that my first dinner in Spain began with ... by train around 9:30. With two suitcases in tow— taking full advantage ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... , squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the coordination and strength

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  really got me as a prefrosh -- like in a Redwall book where you guiltily ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  safekeeping upon arrival. (In theory, MIT returns your time to you upon ... write. That is, there are many people who are interested in writing. A lot of people periodically have brilliant ideas which they then go over in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  fashion statement in certain circles, but it's also practical; you never ... hectic in the summer at MIT anyway; you don't have to worry about classes ... was in got lost on the way there, so by the time we parked, the other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In ... won’t bore you with the details, even though it was AMAZING and I feel

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  use blackboards in Stata! (If you haven't seen it, more background on ... I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection: The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  You may have noticed that blogging has slowed down a bit over the ... semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms ... . Congratulations on your final decision. You are about to enter an intensely

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  what I'm doing and such -- so I thought I'd clue you all in on my raison ... infection is a poor choice, just in case you're ever faced with the decision ... ! Ahh! Ahh!" when they're in pain, thank you. The double-major That

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  "thank you" statemets I have written in this entry, but I mean each and ... I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park ... /PG&E for sponsoring my participation in the walk. (... and my shirt

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  you haven't taken a literature class at MIT (which I haven't), you ... , which she just read... in German. She and Sam '07 should discuss its major themes... in German. She introduced me to her housemate (at Student House

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my ... entry; see my previous live entry, in this very same room, just six months ... ) Cornflake Girl (Tori Amos) If Ain't Got You (Alicia Keys) Drift and Die

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars ... From the article "Engineering changes for the better in Haiti: Local ... about that. Gerthy cares about that. I care about that." I blogged in a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  ” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a ... for an entire 12 hours. Cambridge was wrapped in a wet blanket of cold ... the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a bubble in that, as an MIT student, you start to forget what the outside ... big corporations that you hope to work for in the summer. Last year I

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description, you should definitely check out these longer articles from Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... treasures at and around MIT and puts them in the limelight. The first hidden

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  you come in: to ensure that this type of gnarly recursive situation ... in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008