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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  work on a simulated robotic arm that can detect and stack cups into a pyramid. Spoiler: it works! We aren't controlling the bot; it's moving by ... . Whether I actually improved or not is up for debate. I couldn't decide what

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  working as soon as the WiFi goes out ([annotation note="Ironically, most ... , against all odds, worse than the Bevi machine. The sensor doesn’t quite work ... Bevi works. If you’ve used a Bevi machine after July 2020, you’ve likely

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... , we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get sick hanging out with a sick friend and be unable to do that work. But on

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  of work went into organizing the show and ensuring things ran smoothly ... schedule meeting times between 1 am and 4 am. They made it work, though ... in the virtual environment and not have a clue how to reach out to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  on its stand (in the yellow box), the half-soldered PCB I was working ... "), which has been a really cool way to explore how satellites work at my own ... outdoors, not usually at the lab desk. I also have normal MIT lectures and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  program or not (and was supposed to find out before i left for Christmas ... class and dropped web.lab.   so everything worked out in the end! i ... between 6 and 10 every night. i also am choreographing two dances, so i work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  before it gave up for the day. my original plan had been to work on my ... that i had brought with me wasn't working so i couldn't build anything ... 's not free though"]assets for a game![/annotation]. it's been on my list

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work ... lights set up, rows of soon-to-be-filled chairs, and a work in progress ... ="This was not the first time I've done this, and it still was super

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  , because it is a truly angsty experience that has been in the works for ... hand gestures, since she works in a lab that analyzes hand gestures. Danny was working on 18.03 and looked up confused by all the hand gestures

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  . "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for lunch. Still a work in progress -- I'll keep you guys updated.   ... month. I'll be working on the iOS Team at Priceline.com -- perhaps I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it's a big day, and we have a lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... number of you will not. I know those feels. I have been there. When I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  will to work as a unit. To not buy into that is to diminish the ... successful on a national or even international level (if you work hard enough ... Division I program. So if you’re someone who enjoys hard work and being

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  unremarkable day. It’s the middle of the school week. Adults are adrift at work ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily ... , and second by the distance. We worked ourselves into a frenzy trying to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  than 3.022, I am working on my management minor with 15.812 and 15 ... EMT, but I am no longer attending pistol practice or working as many ... great honor and although I did not know Sean Collier (the officer who was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of ... . '79 worked on completing squanch mug and shirt orders for current and ... because everyone who has ever tried to finish the mural has not graduated

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  just don’t give a shit.” - Hardi Meybaum, GrabCAD CEO/founder I work at ... think I could do better at with work?” Hardi: “Gabe, I think you’re doing fine.” I pressed further. I had learned not to shrug off answers. I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... hypothetical time when all of my fulfilling work would culminate in a different ... the working world. And at that point I hope that I'll have the freedom

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  independent study. Work began on February 6: Daniel L. '12 writing lyrics ... RoboCup." Yeah, no big deal. It's not like building autonomous soccer ... Metropolitan Opera. Working with the Musical Theater Guild is, according to Julie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  location for current MIT students to show off their work. Exhibits are ... around to working on this exhibit until the last two weeks of January ... . This, of course, was not the end. I spent the next week mounting the

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  capsaicin to get a really spicy dish?" "Actually…that would work. Okay ... fantasy and science fiction books. If you're familiar with Tolkien's work ... of an actual call—and numerous parodies. Not all the songs at

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009